It is 'invitation' not 'invite !

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I am arranging DS's birthday party. I had to go to three shops and look at twelve different designs to find some invitations that said "Invitation" rather than "Invite". Grr.

A language is a living thing.

Invite is fine, these days. Get used to it.

I agree, OP. Surely it makes no sense whatsoever commercially to limit your range so unnecessarily?

And I also miss the word "quotation".

But "invite" is a verb!

I so agree OP! I HATE the word invite.....

Yes! At last! Someone who understands.

I agree with you OP. This has been a bugbear of mine for years, and I shall not compromise .

It sounds American.

I am happy to invite DS's friends to his birthday party. I shall be sending them each an invitation.

From etymonline:
"As a noun variant of invitation it is attested from 1650s"

It's been around longer than you have.

Hmmmm.
Not in my house.

I send texts saying "thanks for the invite to x's party" fully aware that a pedantic recipient could be thinking "its INVITATION not invite!" but I CBA to write it out in full, sorry!

Texts rules are different non-existent though. It's OK to abbreviate texts.

At least you put in the apostrophe

Yanbu!

Hmmmm.
Not in my house.

That doesn't make British English wrong, it just means you don't use it (due to not liking it). I don't use the word 'cenacle', but that doesn't mean it's not an English word.

OP - I too would have refused to have bought "invites". It's wrong and sounds horrible (and American).

I too would have refused to have bought...

Ugh, that sounds horrible! "I too would have refused to buy..."

WMittens - Perhaps you haven't got a cenacle in your house anyway, in which case your occasion to use it would be somewhat limited? Our dining room is downstairs, which arguably disqualifies it from being so described.

You're right, I don't have a clique of writers in my house. I haven't got an invite either, nor a zebra, trouser press or harpsichord - they're still all nouns in the English language; whether I have one in my house makes no difference whatsoever :-\

WMittens - I think you are perhaps you might be more suited to the Am I Being Unreasonable forum.

Why?

The funny thing is that when using "invite" as a noun, people always pronounce it differently from "invite" as a verb, by stressing the first syllable instead of the second. They know they have to differentiate it from the verb, so if they had any sense, two brain cells to rub together, the sense they were born with, or whatever qualification is needed to use the English language in the knowledge that words are different for a reason, they would use the appropriate one, which is: "invitation".

IMHO