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Invites or invitations?

9 replies

maltloafeater · 26/04/2008 18:51

This is driving me mad. Is it party invites or party invitations?

I always thought it was the latter, but invites seems to be in common use even with professional printers.

Answers please.

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Iota · 26/04/2008 18:52

invitation is correct

maltloafeater · 26/04/2008 19:00

Thank you. So why do I keep hearing about 'invites'. Is it a local (northern) term, or is it used across the country?

Please any mums netters organising a party send out invitations not invites.

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ProfessorGrammaticus · 26/04/2008 19:19

Ooohh not invites! (And am a northerner myself)

Posey · 26/04/2008 19:27

Invitations, every time!
(I'm a northerner, married to a southerner, living in London.)

PaninoPan · 26/04/2008 19:44

invites is a verb. Invitations a noun. Invitations every time.

asicsgirl · 27/04/2008 19:33

Seems similar to 'quote' and 'quotation' as in 'that's a good quote'. Linguistic change in progress!

Spidermama · 27/04/2008 19:34

As well as being a verb, 'invites' has entered common parlance as a noun and a shortened version (American?) of 'invitations'.

DoubleBluff · 27/04/2008 19:35

I think of an invite as being verbal.
An invitation as a physical thing.

PaninoPan · 27/04/2008 19:43

well, spidermama it can accept my invitation and clear off out again!

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