ETIQUETTE EXPERTS LAMENT THE DEATH OF THE RSVP.(LIFE-TODAY) Albany Times Union (Albany, NY) (10/3/2004)
...social event -- whether dinner at home, a potluck picnic or a large formal wedding -- knows all about the value of RSVP, the acronym for ``repondez, s'il vous plait,'' in French, or, in plain English, ``please reply.'' With school...

RSVP: IT'S THE POLITE THING TO DO.(Home Front) Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO) (9/21/1997)
...is a host or hostess to react? RSVP is the acronym for the French phrase: Respondez...just such a guest - a shame-faced RSVP slacker who over the years has left...that may be one reason they don't RSVP. Or they may be like me - poor...

EMPLOYEES RESPOND TO RSVP WEB. Business Insurance (11/23/1998)
KALAMAZOO, Mich. -- RSVP -- it's the French acronym for ``please reply.'' When...based Pharmacia & Upjohn introduced RSVP Web, that's exactly what the...surveys.'' Pharmacia & Upjohn's RSVP Web also stands for Resources for...

ABBREVIATED HISTORY OF THE ACRONYM The Boston Globe (Boston, MA) (2/11/2001)
`WHEN ACRONYMS INSPIRE ACRIMONY...WIZARD OF THE WORD CALLS RSVP AN ACRONYM?" WROTE STEVE KENDALL...letter by letter as in RSVP. And that's what...let's note that acronym itself is a youngish...the difference between acronyms ...

Please reply before the first of sometime ...; Many people fail to RSVP, leaving the host in the lurch. Here's the proper response. Chicago Sun-Times (12/12/2007)
The letters RSVP at the bottom of those holiday invitations are a little acronym for the French phrase "repondez...t realize how helpful the RSVP is, until they throw a party...says. Any invitation with an RSVP on it or even '"regrets only...

When you get an invite, RSVP via SMS asap. The Star (South Africa) (6/22/2011)
...cult of SMSing, new acronyms are popping up daily...was a child the only acronym I knew was the word...birth to a swarm of acronyms and in the period immediately after the war acronyms popped up thick and...abbreviations of course - RSVP ...

SUB RSVP WITH `PLEASE REPLY' IN INVITATIONS.(LIFE & LEISURE) Albany Times Union (Albany, NY) (6/5/1998)
...misunderstanding of the simple meaning and social requirement of the RSVP, may I suggest that the term is now antiquated and needs...appears that the vast majority of people do not know what the acronym means, and even those who do often choose to ignore it...January 1, 1999'' or something ...

WHEN ACRONYMS INSPIRE ACRIMONY The Boston Globe (Boston, MA) (2/4/2001)
...the dog."Still, the bare RSVP ought to suffice; if you think...is another kettle of fish. RSVP, in recasting itself as a noun...is merely following other acronyms that, once familiar, come...there's no reason to resist RSVP. Even the redundancy issue...

Serving seniors: SRDA programs continue to assist aging population. The Pueblo Chieftain (Pueblo, Colorado) (11/7/2006)
...doctor's appointments, a senior employment service and the Retired Senior Volunteer Program which has long gone by the acronym RSVP. Carolyn Brown, who's been employed by SRDA since 1973, says back then "everybody did everything: social, recreation...