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.)

Heard myself say it the other day😡I was horrified. Hate the term.

People using a word in the correct context annoys you?

A shop - shopping
A brush - brushing
A mirror - mirroring
A phone - phoning
A clap - clapping
A wheel - wheeling
A cut - cutting
A gift - gifting

Loads of nouns have an associated verb form!

It's a noun not a verb.

Iirr it's been used as a verb for centuries too.
I'm sure it appears in dictionaries as both a noun (a gift) and a verb (to gift)

@pateandbrie

I've bad news for you about invite too 😂😂😂

Can You Use 'Invite' as a Noun??*

"The earliest known use of the noun invite is in the early 1600s. OED's earliest evidence for invite is from 1615, in the writing of George Sandys, writer and traveller. It is also recorded as a verb from the mid 1500s."

@HayFeverFun balls balls balls.

Still hate it.

"Reach out" anyone?

Yep curated is awful for anything other than a museum or art gallery.
Multiple piercings are not a 'curated ear'.😡

It’s not old English though, it’s common usage.

@pateandbrie just don't ever accept the offering of 'gifting' from a German person....the German meaning of Gift is completely different!

I hate it too. I especially hate seeing 'Is anyone gifting a (whatever)'on social media.

It's like it's supposed to be a nicer way of just asking 'does anyone have a (whatever) I can have for free.'

I don’t know why but I hate “purchase” , no one I know in real life says I purchased a loaf of bread , they say I bought a loaf !

I hate it as well. I know it’s correct, it just seems wrong.

possibly because it’s not common usage?

I remember reading it for the first time in a Jackie Collins book decades ago, the main character was gifted some earrings, and thinking it just didn’t flow properly.

i know it’s longer but to me “given earrings as a gift” sounds so much better.

Don't start me on 'I borrowed him £100' no, you loaned him £100.

I see your gifting and raise you "edit" as in "shop the holiday edit". And if anyone at work "leans in" to a project, I mentally hurl a paperweight at them.

That is plain wrong.
I borrowed - coming toward me.
I loaned - going away from me.

I hate it too. Has exactly the same reaction for me.

I'd definitely used 'gifted' over 'given as a gift'.

For me gifted and gave have slightly different meaning. I'd use gave for something that was expected or owed but gifted for something above above that or a present.

Eg. I gave DS new school uniform (because that my responsibility and expected)

Where as a new car or house deposit would be gifted, as not everyone is going to get that kids of gift, so it's an acknowledgement that it's above the remit of what you can expect to be given.

@Sprogonthetyne I agree.
Gifting is a specific form of giving, and giving doesn't always fit the situation adequately.

And yet these days you see “shop” used as a verb instead of “shopping” which drives me up the wall.

I'm disappointed, I thought this was going to be someone talking about their 'gifted' child 😂

I'd only use 'gifted' as an adjective. I don't care how old it is.

I hate erroneous 'of's, as in 'outside of' instead of just 'outside'.

The car was parked outside the house.
I'll meet you outside the cinema.
XYZ isn't available outside X country.

All are fine as they are.

Also the addition of 'proceeded to', which only serves to pointlessly lengthen a sentence and make whoever posted it look insufferably pompous.

He ate the cake.
She told the children not to do X or Y.
They ordered dessert.

Again, all are fine as they are.

Yes @SocksAndTheCity 👏👏👏

Strongly agree.

I don't use shop as a verb, I do use shopping, however the point of my post was to clearly highlight that gift isn't the only noun that can be used as a verb (gifting).