To hate people saying they where “gifted” something

[Bixs]

Where did this even come from?

YABU for posting the eleventy billionth thread about this OP 🙄

I see your 'gifted' and I raise you 'sourced'

YANBU. It drives me mad and I never use it.

The correct terms are given or donated!

@VettiyaIruken

I see your 'gifted' and I raise you 'sourced'

And “curated” when used by people who don’t work in a museum.

I hate it too!

It's been used as a verb (for any item, not just the more technical sense given above, but common parlance) since the 1600s

Yours,
Pedant with an OED

I hate it! And ‘a new way to period’ and ‘sleep your baby’ ugh

Yours, Pedant with an OED

🤮🤮🤮

It’s as bad as “gotten “

Surprised no one has called it an Americanism yet. . .

I actually quite like it. It signifies a difference between something given permanently and intentionally as a gift, and something just handed over to you which may or may not have other circumstances to it.

My DH gave me the chopped onion whilst i was cooking because i was busy stirring; my friend at school gave me measles; my grandfather’s side of the family gave me the gene for red hair; school gave me detention; the shopkeeper gave me my change. None of these are gifts. Gifted has a much lower zeugma rate and so seems more precise.

I don’t actually use it but now i’ve thought about it and seen how much it annoys people i’m going to start.

‘’Hands or Hooves ?’’
YANBU - gifted, ughh.

@AnneTwackie

I hate it! And ‘a new way to period’ and ‘sleep your baby’ ugh

What do those mean? Never heard either of them!

@flowery it’s the terminology used by lullaby trust, ‘sleep your baby on his back’ and an ad I keep seeing for period pants saying ‘a new way to period’, drives me mad!