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Tuesday, July 20, 2010

INVITE/INVITATION


A friend recently wrote to me to complain about people using the transitive verb "invite" instead of the noun "invitation". I answered, "I know Miss Digman would turn over in her grave if she heard it!" I know that I would never use it, but in checking several sources, I learned that it is, unbelievably, in common usage. There again, I thought it was JUST Fayette County usage.

Thank goodness that my SACRED book, The Oxford Dictionary Of The English Language, lists the usage of "invite" as a noun "colloquial".

1 comment:

Mona Lisa said...

I've heard the verb "listen" used the same way as in "give a listen"! As Patty would say,
"P-U-YUCK"!