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Originally Posted by TGS
The verbing of nouns - like what I just did in taking the noun "verb" and making it into a verb - is something that seems to happen much more frequently in American English than in British or other Englishes. Sometimes it annoys me when see it and sometimes I think it's really clever - but the amazing thing is we always know what it means!
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The one that irritates me is the use of the word "gift" as a verb. I don't know why it should do so, but it does. What's wrong with "give"?