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December NVRA
2018 eVoice

THE THREE MOST COMMON

WRITING MISTAKES ON

HOLIDAY GREETINGS

aybe it’s all the parties and booze during the holiday season, but there are three
common writing mistakes that pop up on holiday greetings every year. No matter
how beautifully designed the greeting is and how long you spent selecting just the
Mright photo, a writing mistake can ruin the sentiment. Keep your holiday greeting
error-free by reviewing a few of the most common mistakes.

WRITING MISTAKE #1: ’Tis the season for contraction mistakes
Tis ’Tis

’Tis is a contraction of “it is” that was once more commonly used than it’s. It was first used in the
fifteenth century and now makes an annual appearance around the holidays. Keep the
apostrophe placed before the word tis and ’tis correct.

WRITING MISTAKE #1: Please, please reply to my invitation
Please RSVP RSVP

RSVP is a shortened version of répondez s’il vous plaît, which is French for “respond, if you
please.” “Please RSVP” sounds like you’re begging for a response by saying “please respond, if
you please.” RSVP is enough; or you can skip the use of RSVP entirely and use “please respond”
to avoid making any mistakes.

WRITING MISTAKE #1: Getting your own name wrong

The Jones’s The Joneses or the Jones family
Part of keeping up with Joneses means spelling your family name right. The Joneses is correct
because it indicates more than one member of the family. The Jones’s indicates possession,
as in the Jones’s home. Simply add an s to the end of your last name to indicate the message is
coming from more than one family member. If your name ends in s or z, as in Jones or Juarez,
add es. Despite it being a busy season with parties and presents, make sure your holiday
greeting is remembered for its beauty and sentiment and not for its writing mistakes.

Source: Grammarly.com