[Magdalen] Invites

Grace Cangialosi gracecan at gmail.com
Sun Mar 13 14:04:43 UTC 2016


Mine is 'gift' used as a verb., as in "She gifted me with these flowers."
Grrr..sets my teeth on edge!

On Sun, Mar 13, 2016 at 9:12 AM, Marion Thompson <marionwhitevale at gmail.com>
wrote:

> My current irritant is use of the word 'fulsome'.  Instead of  'he gave a
> full report', they say 'he gave a fulsome report', which is not the same
> thing at all!  It might be both a full and fulsome report, but you know
> what I mean.
>
> Marion, a pilgrim
>
>
> On 3/13/2016 9:02 AM, Scott Knitter wrote:
>
>> invitation has become invite
>>
>> request has become ask ("What's your ask?")
>>
>> lend has become loan ("I loaned him $50")
>>
>> depressing
>>
>> On Sun, Mar 13, 2016 at 7:38 AM, Marion Thompson
>> <marionwhitevale at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Along with so many others.
>>>
>>> Marion, a pilgrim
>>>
>>>
>>> On 3/13/2016 5:38 AM, Allan Carr wrote:
>>>
>>>> "Apple has officially sent out invites for an event next week . . ."
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> http://tech.firstpost.com/news-analysis/4-inch-iphone-se-to-launch-on-21-march-everything-we-know-so-far-303755.html
>>>>
>>>> Is the word invitation now obsolete?
>>>>
>>>> Just wondering.
>>>>
>>>>
>>
>>
>


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Grace Cangialosi
Ruckersville, VA

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