RE: noun destructs

["Combs, Richard" <richard -dot- combs -at- Polycom -dot- com>]

Milan Davidovic wrote:
 
> On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 2:32 AM, Gene Kim-Eng <techwr -at- genek -dot- com> wrote:
> > "Invite" as an alternative noun to "invitation" dates back to the 1600's.
> > Everything old is new again.
> 
> I was looking for information to that effect; where did you find it?

Dictionary.com says invite as a noun is "informal." But it includes this under "Word Origin & History": 

invite
1530s, a back formation from invitation; as a noun variant of invitation  it is attested from 1650s.
Online Etymology Dictionary, Â 2010 Douglas Harper

Interestingly, M-W.com doesn't acknowledge invite as a noun at all. I thought they were descriptivists. 


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