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In reply to the discussion: Would you use "gift" as a verb? [View all]hlthe2b
(103,003 posts)and newly created "words" in recent decades. Some doreally rankle me (as when Merriam Webster gave in to the Bushies* and included "NU-KU-Lar" as an alternative pronunciation for nuclear--just because GWB* and several others could not pronounce it.
So, I guess it gets filed under "pick your battles."
But in answer, "gifting" as a verb is not (for me) the most irritating noun newly accepted as a verb. Every few years another generation comes up with more examples and it falls to the rest of us to accept them--whether we want to or not. English is ever-changing. I am told the only language more rapidly changing is Japanese (I have a friend whose knowledge of her birth language stopped at age 5. Now she incites much laughter with her attempts to speak)