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.)