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?

Hasn't common usage nearly made 'text' a past tense already? As in, 'She text me to say her house was on fire'?

We like to take that to its nth degree chez 'Pru Fanjo, and procure everyday items. O how we laugh.

"grovel"

Like "turned" applewood bowls.

"turned" in this case is correct

"To give a rounded form to (wood, for example) by rotating against a cutting tool."

Grovel doesn't question the correctness of 'turned', she just has an irrational hatred of woodturning.

(I think it's called xylocirclophobia)

Gifted = given.

Regifted = fucking handed on.

it was gifted to myself.

gifted - made up word

regifted - fucking rude

Could 'gifted' mean 'given as a present'??

I cannot believe I have pondered this on and off all frigging day...

Was it Berhard Shaw who said 'The English and Americans are divided by a common language' or something similar? Or was it Stephen Fry/Oscar Wilde?

Churchill.

Lord Grantham.

Yanbu, I hate it too along with it's variant - gifting.

"Gifted" is a perfectly normal Scottish English word, as in "This bench was gifted by the Rotary Club."

OT but I'm reading that book too. Quite fancy the idea of sodding off and living in Travelodges for a few months, visiting random museums.

But agree re gifted. Wrong.

Ooh, here we go, from the Dictionary of the Scots Language, verb, "To give as a gift", from 1602.

Hardly a new invention then .