To hate people saying they where “gifted” something

[Bixs]

Where did this even come from?

I totally agree!!!

I hate when people use 'where' instead of 'were'

"Were"

@pinkyredrose

I hate when people use 'where' instead of 'were'

Typo, I have fat fingers! 😁

YADNBU. You are given something, and you give something. "Gifted" makes me shudder.

I completely agree with you OP. It's a super annoying Instagrammism. #gifted meaning "I'm posting this because I was bribed to".

What happened to "given"?! Hitches bosom

In legal and financial terms it is used to clarify that money given is a gift rather than a loan that the giver is expecting to be repaid.

If you have gifted the money you gave it as a gift. You didn't "give" it as a loan.

It isn't a new term.

Personally I don't mind 'were gifted' but 'where gifted' is rather annoying when it's in a post that is critical of the way somebody uses English.

I think people who are ‘gifted’ things are the same people who use ‘yourself’, ‘myself’ etc.

Gifted is used in tax law to signify something was given with no consideration. It’s not new.

Typo, I have fat fingers! 😁

How fat do your fingers have to be to accidently hit the "h" key after the "w"? Do you have hands or hoofs?

Merry Christmas xxx

@CayrolBaaaskin

Gifted is used in tax law to signify something was given with no consideration. It’s not new.

That is what I was trying to say, but much more succinctly put. It is an accepted legal term in the financial world and is not new.

I don't see why people get het up over it. It is perfectly correct. That is the context I would use it in. I would not use it in other contexts such as giving Christmas or birthday presents.

@perditasugarplum

Personally I don't mind 'were gifted' but 'where gifted' is rather annoying when it's in a post that is critical of the way somebody uses English.

Indeed

@TooTrueToBeGood

Typo, I have fat fingers! 😁

How fat do your fingers have to be to accidently hit the "h" key after the "w"? Do you have hands or hoofs?

Merry Christmas xxx

I don’t know how I did it but typing whilst eating mince pies!

Gifted is used in tax law to signify something was given with no consideration. It’s not new.

So people keep saying - but that’s a completely different context.

@perditasugarplum

Personally I don't mind 'were gifted' but 'where gifted' is rather annoying when it's in a post that is critical of the way somebody uses English.

Point taken. But there’s a difference between someone accidentally typing the wrong word and someone deliberately using the word “gifted”

Gifted is so pretentious, given will do unless you are in court or in a solicitors office. See also "hosted".

HATE IT.

I feel the same. To me, gift is very much a noun and not a verb!!

I'm mystified why this irritates people so much. Gift as a verb has been used in this context for at least the last 500 years.

I suspect what people don't like is the use of the passive.

@Topseyt

In legal and financial terms it is used to clarify that money given is a gift rather than a loan that the giver is expecting to be repaid.

If you have gifted the money you gave it as a gift. You didn't "give" it as a loan.

It isn't a new term.

Used in that context, no problem. But when people talk about their mum having “gifted” them a jumper for Christmas, or about the makeup they “gifted” their niece for her birthday, that’s different.

It's a verb in Scotland.

Gifted deposit (for a house): yes, gifted a present: no.

Learnt something new about the term gifted, I guess it prevents cases
Like you see on JJ where they say they loaned it rather than gifted it.

Depends on the context? If someone gave me a Christmas present I wouldn’t say it was gifted that sounds ridiculous. However I have an Instagram account with a fair amount of followers and sometimes I’m sent things to review by companies and if I posted a photo of it I would write ‘gifted’ in the caption. If someone gave me a deposit for a house I’d probably say gifted too.