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RSVP is an initialism derived from the French phrase "Répondez s'il vous plaît", [1] meaning "Please respond" (literally "Respond, if it pleases you"), to require confirmation of an invitation. The initialism "RSVP" is no longer used much in France, where it is considered formal and old-fashioned.
An RSVP is a request for response to an invitation (from the French: répondez s'il vous plaît) RSVP or R.S.V.P. may also refer to: Arts, entertainment, and media
When it comes to wedding etiquette, people are divided over whether it's rude to uninvite wedding guests who fail to RSVP before the cutoff date. A bride uninvited guests who missed her RSVP ...
Thank you to a diligent IP editor for correcting my ignorance: the wiktionary entry for s'il vous plaît supports the literal translation "If it pleases you" (despite giving only the English meanings "please" and "if you please"); the one on si'l (which invokes those on si (if) and il (it)) vividly supports the fact that s'il is a contraction with the meaning (in this case) of "if it".
A completed game in French. There are two forms of competition Scrabble in French. Scrabble classique, also known as partie libre, is match play, as in the English-language game. Duplicate Scrabble is an alternative form of the game where all players have the same letters and board in front of them, and play against the theoretical top score.
RSVP was a vertical version of Scrabble introduced by Selchow and Righter in 1958 and promoted as "3-D Scrabble". Two players spelled words using cubical tiles with letters on an upright grid board. Two players spelled words using cubical tiles with letters on an upright grid board.
In French, les objets trouvés, short for le bureau des objets trouvés, means the lost-and-found, the lost property. outré out of the ordinary, unusual. In French, it means outraged (for a person) or exaggerated, extravagant, overdone (for a thing, esp. a praise, an actor's style of acting, etc.); in that second meaning, belongs to "literary ...
The Belgian Scrabble Federation (BSF) (French: Fédération belge de Scrabble (FBSc)) is an association for Belgian Scrabble players (playing in French).The federation has approximately 1,000 members in 60 clubs, and was the first federation for Francophone Scrabble players, founded in 1972, before the unified French Scrabble Federation and the International Francophone Scrabble Federation. [1]