Shelley’s Reviews > Miss Manners' Guide to Domestic Tranquility: The Authoritative Manual for Every Civilized Household, However Harried > Status Update

"RSVP (the preferred abbreviation), 'the favour of a reply is requested'. You will notice that this, too, has a foreign flavour. Uh, flavor. In the interests of americanization, miss manners is have to do away with that 'u'."