to dislike the phrase ‘I have been gifted...’

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I’m in a group online related to food. More and more people are adding posts such as ‘I have just been gifted a bag of lentils’ or ‘last night my mum cane round and gifted me 3 tomatoes and a can of evaporated milk, what can I do with them?’

No doubt someone will come along and tell me that this was actually THE correct way to speak in 1795 and that saying ‘gave or given’ is just lazy but it just drives me up the wall. All I want to do is make a point about the word ‘gifted’ but no doubt it will get me kicked out of the group so I just sigh instead.

"Gotten" is actually old English - used here for centuries before ever making it's way over to the US. It fell out of favour here - but not over there.

We still use the old form of forgotten, which is curious.

'No doubt someone will come along and tell me that this was actually THE correct way to speak in 1795'

You see? It's happened.

Pee and pooped instead of wee and poo.

Pissed instead of pissed off. Seeing so many now on other threads

American grammar isn’t incorrect, it’s just different. You will rarely, if ever, find an American complaining about British grammar!

To me 'pissed' means drunk! So that one really annoys me. And I will not be held responsible for my actions if my kids don't stop (not quit !) saying 'gotten'!

@Glad, How it ‘gotten’ / to get related to the ford forgotten /forget ?

*word

Yes I was sooooooo pissed when I picked the children up from school implies incredibly poor parenting to me

en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/gotten

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Just spotted co-worker instead of colleague

I know it's crazy but I do find it makes me irrationally angry when I hear a British person saying gotten. I wish it didn't because so many people are using in now!

URGH I hate it too! Just saw ‘my mum gifted me a 19p ham’ no she gave it to you!
It really, irrationally grates me.

It's incredibly annoying OP.
YANBU.

I don't think this is an Americanism, but I find talking about being pregnant or having a child "to" someone incredibly annoying and a bit odd - as in 'she has three children to two fathers' or 'she's pregnant to her new boyfriend'. It seems to mainly be used of women, though I did see it the other way round ('he has two children to two mothers' or similar) on a thread today. I've only ever seen it on here and never heard it in RL. Relatedly, talking about a child behaving well/badly or going/not going to sleep 'for' someone instead of 'with' them. 'He says he can't get him to sleep, but he'll go down for me no problem.' Or 'How does he behave for his dad?'

Saturnday, I'm assuming the 'for' bit of 'forget' used to be a kind of negating prefix (like 'ver-' can be in present-day German) - as in if you 'forgot' something, you neglected to 'get'/remember it.

To add to my post ^^ , you see it in 'forbid' - to bid someone to do something is to tell them to do it, to forbid them is to tell them not to do it.

"I love to cook"
"I love to read"

These are the ones that annoy me the most.

There is an epidemic of 'moms' on MN and I can't imagine they are all from the West Midlands.

No, some of them may be from Ireland

Tabby what should it be? I love to cook sounds OK to me

Annoys me too. Other irritating words/expressions. Factor in. Playdate. FWB.

When magazines talk about how people "curate a display" - no - it's a collection of china (or whatever) on a shelf. I had no idea that I have been curating displays for years!

I read a lot of historical romances by American authors. The one phrase I really can't stand is "Xxx wrote Zzz" instead of "Xxx wrote to Zzz". It doesn't make sense!

What is wrong with "I love to read, I love to cook?" You could say, "I love reading, I love cooking," but I don't think those are necessarily more correct.

YANBU, it’s as annoying as fuck. What is wrong with just ‘gave’??

‘Play date’ = ‘Going to x’s house’ (we know it’s to play, they’re 6)

‘Date night’ = ‘going out with DH’