It’s GIVEN not GIFTED FFS !!!

[TriflePudding]

Oh god it’s all over Facebook and it’s driving me crazy - “I have here to gift ...a tatty old sofa I can’t be arsed to get rid of myself so I’m fobbing it off on someone else”
or “I have been gifted a bag of baby clothes but they are too small, does anyone know if anyone in need ?”
Or “looking to gift some donations to local women’s refuge/children’s hospital- who do I get in touch with ?”

JUST FUCK OFF !! Say “given” and while we are at it just donate stuff quietly without any fanfare !

YABU - it is perfectly acceptable to use “gifted” as a verb

Or

YANBU - the word “gifted” being used as a verb was invented by Beelzebub himself.

Please feel free to add your own !

that was your/you're

My bad!!! The first time I heard that, I was very confused

It appears that gift does have a verb meaning

"give (something) as a gift, especially formally or as a donation or bequest.
"the company gifted 2,999 shares to a charity""

So it fits with the library upthread. But I still don't like it in a more everyday context.

Colourways. Ive literally just noticed this in the last 6 months but why does everywhere suddenly refer to how many colourways they have...wasnt colours descriptive enough?? Unnecessarily annoying to me!

'Gifted' is dreadful. Makes my arse clench every time I see it on social media.

The incorrect use of 'myself' in a desperate attempt to sound intelligent. 'My partner and myself.' 'Please send an email to myself.' Twats.

Also 'stay home.' It's stay AT home.

Why is it now "shop" instead of "shop for"?E.g. "shop winter bargains", "shop homeware".

I think the reason most of these rankle is they're Americanisms and it smacks of people dimly watching/following American TV and culture and regurgitating it.

I have absolutely nothing against America, Americans, or even their words, but we have our own language..

How many times do we now see 'stroller' instead of 'pushchair', for example.

Gifted has a specific meaning in tax law (and possibly general life). It means given with no expectation of reward. so yabu - its a word with a useful meaning.

@AdultingAvoidance

blow out. Spoke to someone perfectly sane last week and then they mentioned a blow out. No, it's a bloody blow dry

I agree - to some extent. A blow out is a thing but only related to stomachs - def not to hair.

Gifted, sourced and curated are perfectly fine words but when people use them I have a terrible urge to commit acts of violence. I'm definitely BU but it annoys me beyond belief.

I lived in Canada until I was 10 & I quite like the American isms drifting into our vocabulary. I also really enjoy the regional differences in our words & phrases. There is only 1 word that really irritates me 'gotten '

I'm not a fan of "I was like...and she was like... so I was like..."

"decimated"- incorrect use has given me the rage for a couple of decades
diminished by one tenth, you say? that's really not so bad
even the newscasters didn't get the memo- it's everywhere
strongly suspect the fight is lost (and don't get me started on "disinterested")

@DisappearingGirl

Why is it now "shop" instead of "shop for"?E.g. "shop winter bargains", "shop homeware".

And what about the use of 'shop' instead of 'shopping' as a noun for things you've bought? It's 'shopping' not 'a shop'.

"Save £5 on your next shop!"

I don't own a shop and have no intention of ever owning one. And if I did, I can't see how saving £5 off the cost of buying a building and establishing a business would be all that helpful.

@BewareTheBeardedDragon
Needs gone etc are Scottish dialect. See also Pittsburgh English.
(I swear I type that at least once a week on here )

When someone says there was a 'not insignificant amount...'

Just say there was a significant amount FFS!!!!!!!

If someone was meant to meet you at midday, and they didn't turn up til 12.20pm, you wouldn't say they got there 'not early...' You'd say 'they got there late!'

Absolutely agree, OP. the rise of 'gifted' is a bugbear of mine. People seem to think it makes them sound that bit more sophisticated, more elevated.

'My mother gifted me a saucepan'

Well la-di-dah for you, Graham!

And what about the use of 'shop' instead of 'shopping' as a noun for things you've bought? It's 'shopping' not 'a shop'.

"Save £5 on your next shop!"

But shop also has a further meaning as a noun - ‘an act of shopping’ or ‘a shopping session’ (e.g. “I do our weekly shop on a Tuesday”) so “save £5 on your next shop” does work.

And what about the use of 'shop' instead of 'shopping' as a noun for things you've bought?

Then you have to ‘edit’ them..

I'm not sure if it's already been mentioned but 'wait list' instead of 'waiting list'.

Yech.

One that really bugs me.....

I have mental health.....

EVERYONE has mental health but not everyone has mental health PROBLEMS or ISSUES.

God this bugs me..

Sorry, gift can be a noun or a verb ... lt either means a talent, a present or the legal word for the act of handing over something to someone which immediately becomes their property with no conditions attached.
I hate holibobs, famalam and hubby/hubster. Also sourced and pop of colour ...

Yes but it's only recently come to mean 'gave me a present of..' when in reference to friends and family. Corporate gifting has always been a thing.

Most of these I can’t get wound up about but “myself” drives me mad!

“Tom and myself will be leading the job” nooooooo it’s “Tom and I”. Myself should only be used if I is already in the sentence e.g. “I am leading the job myself”. Drives me bonkers as I think people thinks it makes them sound posh.

www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/gift-as-a-verb