Gifted

[pateandbrie]

This word! It seems to be being used all the time at the moment.

"I was gifted a voucher"

"My parents gifted me some money"

Oh my god. It makes my teeth clench, my skin crawl and my entire body cringe inside out.

Am I being unreasonable? Is this a perfectly normal use of a perfectly normal word? Or is this, in fact, an insane use of a word that really shouldn't exist?

WHAT IS WRONG WITH GIVEN/GAVE?

(Lighthearted. A bit.)

It's a totally legitimate word being used in the correct context?

Agree OP

I can’t stand myself/yourself. It’s me and you.

I received an email from my car insurance provided starting “Ourselves have settle your claim.” I wanted to email back “It’s WE!”

I hate it too

It means "to give as a gift". You can't interchange it with "to give" in all circs. E.g. "Give me your opinion" for "gift me your opinion".

Mortgage lenders have a "gifted deposit" option because this means given as a gift as opposed to in return for a share in the property/equity/etc.

I agree, OP, and pinkstripeycat, that too.

How about "journey" - my weight loss journey, pregnancy journey, etc. What's wrong with these people?

It's a noun not a verb.
Making a noun into a verb is pretentious crap

It's pretentious and showy

Oh look at me and my largesse aren't I great?!

YANBU

I even hate the word gift!

Gifted and given do not necessarily have the same meaning. I could be given a compliment, I could be given a clip around the ear, I could be given a hard time - in none of those cases would it be correct to use “gifted”.

Using “gifted” unambiguously means that the thing being given was intended to be a gift. That could be useful if the context doesn’t make that clear, or if the person using it particularly wants to draw attention to the fact that it was a gift.

The difference in meaning justifies its use as far as I’m concerned - why wouldn’t you want to have the option of adding more nuance to the language?

@pateandbrie

Can't see anything wrong with it really.

Live, Love, Laugh, and Keep Calm and Drink Prosecco!

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@SabreIsMyFave haha yes this!

@pinkstripeycat this one winds me up no end as well 'if you need anything please contact myself' 🤯

I think my tolerance is low tonight. Maybe it's a blood sugar thing.

Everyone saying it's not interchangeable with 'given' - no of course it's not, because it's not the proper use of the word, but in every case where someone says 'I was gifted x' or 'I gifted them y' you could replace that word with given/gave. Could you not?

Well you could say "ran" instead of "sprinted" but sometimes it's nice to have a more specific word.

Fully agree. I've only recently seen it used as a verb and it never sounds right. It's always just been used as a noun until the last few years as far as I'm aware. And yes, just say "I was given xxx". Same meaning.

Yabu for drinking prosecco! Yuk! 😃

YANBU. It's similar to everything being 'sourced' now, rather than bought or purchased.

Has anyone checked that it's not something that was used in the past that is now coming back into fashion. A reemergence feel better than a new word.
don't use it as it feels wrong but I can see that people might use it to emphasize that some thing was given as a gift rather than just given.

I don't 'ourselves' when it's used when 'we' 'me' or 'I' would sound better.

According to the OED, the verb "to gift" has been in use since sometime in the late 1500s, while the noun "gift" goes back to 1150ish if not earlier:
The earliest known use of the verb gift is in the late 1500s.OED's earliest evidence for gift is from before 1600, in Wife in Morel's Skin.It is also recorded as a noun from the Middle English period (1150—1500).

I think “gifted” is sometimes used correctly in a legal context—trusts and estates. In normal conversation it’s hideous.

I hate “sourced” as much as PP but “curated” has got to be the worst.

Personally i dislike the word ‘cringe’ but here we are

WHAT IS WRONG WITH GIVEN/GAVE?

Because giving doesn’t necessarily mean gifting.

Exactly.

It’s a verb in the dictionary

verb
verb: gift; 3rd person present: gifts; past tense: gifted; past participle: gifted; gerund or present participle: gifting

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

• present (someone) with a gift or gifts.
• "the queen gifted him with a heart-shaped brooch"
• Similar:
• endow with (something).
• "man is gifted with a moral sense"
• INFORMAL
• inadvertently allow (an opponent) to have something.
• "the goalkeeper gifted Liverpool their last-minute winner"

No around me uses the word gifted I read of given

I had a feeling that there would be some old English usage of it which meant AIBU but do you know what? I don't care and I still hate it 😂

See also 'invite' instead of 'invitation'

"Thanks for the invite, little Johnny would love to come"

"Teams meeting at 2pm? I'll send an invite"

I also hate the use of gifted, you are not alone OP!