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Is invite really a noun?
Yes. Some people feel strongly that the role of invite should be restricted to that of verb, but the English language changes and grows according to its own peculiar whims, and not those of people who write angry letters to dictionaries. The process whereby a word changes its part of speech is called functional shift, and there are tens of thousands of words which have done this. Some of them just bother people more than others, and invite (along with gift and friend, which have changed in the opposite direction) is one that attracts considerable opprobrium.
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Emily Zemler, Rolling Stone, 19 Nov. 2024
Old Town Trolley invited several city policymakers to take rides this week to better understand how historic tours work.
—Nate Rau, Axios, 19 Nov. 2024
Matthew Self, The Arizona Republic, 24 Oct. 2024
For example, one smart communicator from a tech company used AI to tailor an event invitation for a Gen Z influencer and then enlisted AI to help craft an invite to the same event for a member of a foreign delegation, which requires specific protocol and language.
—Eleanor Hawkins, Axios, 24 Oct. 2024
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“Invite.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/invite. Accessed 28 Nov. 2024.
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