What is "rsvp"

vb. (context informal English) To respond to an invitation, usually to indicate that one will be coming to the corresponding event.

RSVP may refer to:

• RSVP (invitations), request for response (French: répondez s'il vous plaît)

RSVP (Requested Songs for Video Play) was a MuchMusic video request show that was popular during the 1990s. Viewers could request videos by phone, fax, videotape, mail, and later email. It was common for viewers to mail in creative pieces to try to get their favourite videos played. RSVP was replaced by MuchOnDemand, which gives users only a chance to vote on a few preselected videos to play.

Category:Canadian music television series

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.

RSVP was sold in the UK under the Spear's Games label as item #1051 (Copyright 1966 by Production and Marketing Company, 1968 J. W. Spear & Sons Ltd) with the how to play/rules printed inside the box lid.

The playing space is a dark blue vertical frame, held upright by two detachable black feet, with 11 x 11 square holes with 75 wooden block lettered playing pieces available to place within that frame. The letter blocks are similar to regular Scrabble tiles showing a large letter and a small number for their scoring point value (identical on their opposing faces). There are no 'blank' blocks.

From the introduction inside the box lid: "RSVP is played on both sides of an upright frame by two players. The object of the game is to form horizontal and vertical words by placing letter blocks in crossword fashion on your side of the frame while blocking the formation of words on the opposite side. It is to each player's advantage to place letter blocks so that they cannot be used by his opponent and, whenever possible, to use letters placed from the opposite side. A total to be played to is determined at the start of the game - usually 100 points."

In the context of social invitations, RSVP is a process for a response from the invited person or people. It is an initialism derived from the French phrase Répondez s'il vous plaît meaning "Please respond". The acronym "RSVP" or the phrase "Répondez s'il vous plaît" are sometimes still used in current French to require confirmation of an invitation. In French, however, the acronym SVP, initialism for S'il vous plaît, is used to write "please", and RSVP could be written "répondez SVP."

Post, Funk & Wagnalls, 1975 and some recent editions describe breaching this standard as "inexcusably rude".

The Emily Post Institute advises anyone receiving an invitation with an RSVP on it must reply promptly, and should reply within a day or two of receiving the invitation.

RSVP is a Canadian short film, directed by Laurie Lynd and released in 1991. It was one of the films singled out by film critic B. Ruby Rich in her influential 1992 essay on the emergence of New Queer Cinema.

The film, mostly musical with very little spoken dialogue, stars Daniel MacIvor as Sid, a man returning home for the first time since his partner Andrew's death of AIDS. He turns on CBC Stereo's classical music program RSVP just as the announcer is reading a request, submitted by Andrew himself shortly before his death, to play Jessye Norman's recording of "Le Spectre de la rose" from Hector Berlioz's Les nuits d'été. As the music begins, Sid reminisces about the relationship; after it ends, he calls Andrew's sister in Winnipeg to advise her to listen to the program when it airs in her time zone. His sister, in turn, notifies other family members and each relives their own memories of Andrew as they listen to the song, creating an extended community of people united in their grief as the shared experience of the music metaphorically collapses their geographic distance from each other. Andrew is played by Ross Manson in flashbacks; the film's cast also includes Stewart Arnott, Ferne Downey, Gordon Jocelyn, London Juno and Judith Orban.

The film premiered at the 1991 Toronto International Film Festival. Lynd sent the completed film to Norman in advance of its theatrical premiere, seeking her approval. She was so moved by it that she flew to Toronto to attend the screening, at which she held Lynd's hand throughout the entire film.

It aired on television later in 1991 as a special, and garnered two Gemini Award nominations, for Short Dramatic Program and Direction in a Dramatic Program or Mini-Series. The film was subsequently rebroadcast on CBC Television's Canadian Reflections in 1993.

In 2007, Toronto's Inside Out Film and Video Festival screened both R.S.V.P. and Lynd's subsequent film The Fairy Who Didn't Want to Be a Fairy Anymore, along with an excerpt from his highly anticipated but not yet completed feature film Breakfast with Scot.