DEAR MISS MANNERS: Am I the only one bothered by the term “invites” when people really mean “invitations”? I hear the term and see it in print very frequently, but it does not appear correct to me.
GENTLE READER: It is not. “Invite” may be commonly used colloquially as a noun -- but not, you will notice, by Miss Manners.
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