Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaagrh
The word "Gift"...

IS NOT A CUNTING VERB.

You can't gift something. You just can't. And you most definitely CANNOT re-gift it. What the FUCK is wrong with the word "give"?

I will personally hunt down and saw off the arms of the next person I hear say this.

*chunters*
(Rakky (forgot her password) The muffin maverick, Tue 6 May 2008, 23:09, 3 replies)

actually, you can
dictionary.reference.com/browse/gift - browse down to the verb definition.

I'll accept that it's an Americanism, but it's become accepted in UK english too.

It means that the item has been given without cost.

If you think you're capable of chopping off my arms, I'll gladly supply my address.
(weedom, Tue 6 May 2008, 23:52, closed)

Unfortunately
the Americans have a habit of making verbs out of words which were hitherto very happy just being nouns. And also making up words from nothing. Notice when you land at an American airport, you don't disembark the aircraft like we do in Blighty.

No, in the US, passengers 'deplane'.

Amuses and irritates me in equal measure.
( K2k6 has a proper job these days, Wed 7 May 2008, 8:29, closed)

Weedom
Pedant. :P

I had a feeling it probably was a proper word, it's just so wrong. I saw an advert on a billboard that said "Product X (I forget), the gift you'll want to re-gift..."

It's so clumsy.

But you can keep your arms...

And K2K6, I'd heard deplane before. Then mentally scrubbed it out.
(Rakky (forgot her password) The muffin maverick, Wed 7 May 2008, 13:37, closed)