On 6/27/2015 1:18 AM, Steve W. wrote:
Rudy Canoza wrote:
On 6/26/2015 3:57 PM, Ignoramus23199 wrote:
I am wondering if anyone else ever received unusual gifts.

For example, today, a company unexpectedly gifted me sixteen brand
name pallet jacks in great condition.

"Gift" is not a verb, no matter how often illiterates treat it as one.


And you're an idiot.


gift
?ift/
verb

Nope. That's slovenly popular usage, and all you've found is a slovenly
descriptive popular dictionary.

Gift is not a verb.

http://www.theatlantic.com/entertain...a-verb/383676/

http://grammarist.com/usage/gift/

http://www.quickanddirtytips.com/edu...gifting-a-word


Literate people - that excludes you, pork chop - do not use gift as a verb.