Ann Brink on sat 9 oct 04
Hi Steve- I bet you don't use "invite" as a noun, either. This mis-usage
has become really prevalent lately.
Ann Brink in Lompoc CA, back from a short trip and ready to get busy
glazing.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Steve Slatin"
>
> -- Steve Slatin (who still refuses to use "quote" as
> a noun)
>
Carl Finch on sun 10 oct 04
At 05:07 PM 10/9/2004 -0700, Ann Brink wrote:
>Hi Steve- I bet you don't use "invite" as a noun, either. This mis-usage
>has become really prevalent lately.
"Lately?" Heh, heh--not quite!!
From the OED:
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invite, n. colloq.
[f. invite v.: cf. command, request, etc.]
1. The act of inviting; an invitation.
1659 H. L=92Estrange Alliance Div. Off. 326 Bishop Cranmer...
gives him an earnest invite to England.
1778 F. Burney Diary (1842) I. 105 Everybody bowed
and accepted the invite but me..for I have no intention
of snapping at invites from the eminent.
1818 Lady Morgan Autobiog. (1859) 39 We have refused
two invites for to-day.
Ibid. 292 For Monday we have had three dinner invites.
1825 T. Hook Man of Many Friends in Sayings & Doings
Ser. ii. I. 279 Adepts in every little meanness or
contrivance likely to bring about an invitation
(or, as they call it with equal good taste, an =91invite=92).
1883 C. R. Smith Retrospect. I. 21 Mr. Isaacson readily
accepted the invite.
1937 Times 28 Dec. 7/5 This little servant girl, who...
believed that she would some day receive an =91invite=92
to a royal ball and marry the prince, [etc.].
1968 Listener 13 June 770/1 Is it just an invite from the
colonel for a working week-end?
1970 G. F. Newman Sir, You Bastard v. 143 The four
detectives didn=92t await an invite into the house.
=86 2. pl. (nonce-use for rime.) Attractions, baits.
1615 G. Sandys Trav. 305 The Lamprey swims to his
Lords invites [natat ad magistrum delicata murena],
The Bedel the knowne Mullet cites.
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>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Steve Slatin"
>
>-- Steve Slatin (who still refuses to use "quote" as a noun)
By the way, the OED shows that "quote," the noun, has been around for a=20
while, too!
Have a fun day, Ann! <---and how'dya like THAT one?!
--Carl (who gives extra points to The News Hour interviewees
who respond "You're welcome" when thanked,
rather than "Thank you")
in Meddlesome, Oregon
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