Invite

[GreenHairDontCare]

Why is everyone saying 'invite' when they mean invitation?

And why does it annoy me? I am pretty easily narked tbf but they're all at it.

'I've got an invite to Alysha's party'

'Where did you leave the invite for that wedding?'

'I'm just making the invites for my birthday'

STOP IT. It's an epidemic. I've now banned my family from saying it and they know there will be consequences. I can't bear it.

Has anyone else noticed this? Why is it a thing?

Mineral - I can't get worked up about different to but do dislike different than.

One of my biggest bugbears is people using "I" incorrectly. If you wouldn't use "I" if you were on your own, then you shouldn't use "I" if you're with someone else.

"She gave the sweets to Johnny and I" sets my teeth on edge. She gave them to Johnny and me.

However, "Come to town with Johnny and me" doesn't bother me unless it is in written form.

Invite has been in use as a colloquial form of invitation since at least the mid-seventeenth century.

Obviously one of the slower moving colloquialisms then!

I hate the phrase 'due to health and safety reasons'. I can't quite explain why, but it feels wrong. I would accept 'due to health and safety' but adding in the 'reasons' feels redundant and makes me feel itchy.

If I am please explain, I might find it less annoying if I could believe it to be grammatically correct.

theymademejoin

If you wouldn't use "I" if you were on your own, then you shouldn't use "I" if you're with someone else

That's really interesting, thanks. I didn't know that was the rule.

Glad to help mineral . I'm a little evangelical about it. It's amazing how few people know that rule!

Suenahmi - I think it's the sheer laziness of the usage that grates.

Considerations would be better than reasons. Also, the "due to" is usually used incorrectly. It should be because if it's modifying a verb so "You can't enter because of H&S considerations" would be correct. Whereas "his accident was due to H&S lapses" would be correct as it is modifying a noun.

Unless you're actually asking to go behind the counter, operate the coffee machine, pour yourself a cup and then emerge from behind the counter then no, you can't "get". You can "have" but you can't "get".

You are adding meaning to "get" that it doesn't have. The definition of "get" is "to come to have or hold (something); receive". So "can I get" is as correct as "can I have." "Get" does not have some sort of built-in reflexive as so many posters on MN seem to think.