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Please RSVP (interjection)
Repondez S'il Vous Plait: is French for "Respond, if you please"; however, if anyone states in writing, or verbally, "Please RSVP", then that person is actually saying, "Please respond, if you please!"; or "Please, please respond!"
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plac-, placi-, -plais
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Pleonasms or Tautological Redundancies
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