to think that fucking 'Gifted' is not a word. Not a real English one anyway.

[AtYourCervix]

Fucking 'gifted'?????

what is wrong with 'given'

or presented?

fucking GIFTED

I ask yo9u?

And don't even get me started on 'myself'.

(cos I am really rubbish)

But "fucking" is isn't it at your cervix. Can't you think of a less vulgar way to phrase an AIBU.

another one here who hates "growing your business"
and "invite" as a noun - it's a fucking invitation!!!
don't even thinking of saying "diarise"

It's American, as per usual. Ignore it and with any luck it will go away. Why we have to keep using their words is beyond me, when we have perfectly good ones of our own

I am less offended by a well timed "fucking" than "gifted" in the context of gifted a gift.

"Gotten" gets me. Its use is spreading like a dose of clap.

Gotten is old English though.

Gotten is bad but "Can I get ... " is worse

So is cunt. Doesn't mean I have to like it.

urgh Rush I was just about to add "can I get"

Gotten is the past participle of got. We used it in British English until fairly recently. No one know why it died out quickly.

Perhaps because people thought it sounded like a dose of the clap?

You need to brace yourself for an outbreak of 'medalling' next year. [flinches]

"can I get" has always been used in Scotland - well, all the time I've been here which is night on 40 years, so I'm pretty used to that one. The one I HATE here is "I seen" instead of "I saw". shudder

Then there's loan as a verb.

Ariesgirl you are dead right as appears from our still having forgotten!

'Gifted/regifted/gifting' make me come out in hives. I think because I always imagine it being in in a stupid little-girlish, hushed tone of voice by an adult woman (the kind who puts big bows on everything, and probably has a gift-wrapping room in her house) as if the act of giving someone a present is Somehow Sacred and needs it own word.

Whereas I think the rest of us can make up our own minds about the difference between

'I gave him a present' and 'I gave him a dose of the clap'.

It's interesting how much American English is preserved 17thC English, like gotten and some spellings - a lot of language change happened around that time and while things moved on in England, language adjusted in different directions in the colonies. So really Starbucks is just giving it back.

The beauty of the English language is that it keeps evolving and sprouting new words. And every noun can be verbed, and every verb can be adjectived.

I also love James Nicolls observation that "The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that English is about as pure as a cribhouse whore. We don?t just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary"

Anyway, YABU, as "gifted" has a different nuance in meaning to "given"

Plate as a verb makes me want to smoke crack.

Yes, Masterchef, I mean you.

No, no, every verb can be adjectival! :o

I've said it before, WidowWadman but I love your nickname.

Urgh - Troisgarcon's mention of "texted" has reminded me of the HORROR that is "texes" as a plural of text. E.G. "he sent me loads of texes" rather than loads of texts.

I think text should be an irregular verb. She toxt me - I have toxten her back.

tox as the plural?

Oh do get started on 'myself' Dobeessneeze It is my pet hate, along with 'yourself' and 'ourselves'.

its like "sourced". I sourced some pieces from the shop.

NO you went to the shop and bought stuff!