Karl Dandleton
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I'm a man, not a disco ball
I believe this is the first usage of gifted that OED is referring to. Originally published around 1550 from
"A merry Ieste of a shrewde and curst Wyfe" (also called "A wife in Morel's Skin" in later printings, I think?)
"A merry Ieste of a shrewde and curst Wyfe" (also called "A wife in Morel's Skin" in later printings, I think?)
December 21, 2024 at 6:37 PM
I believe this is the first usage of gifted that OED is referring to. Originally published around 1550 from
"A merry Ieste of a shrewde and curst Wyfe" (also called "A wife in Morel's Skin" in later printings, I think?)
"A merry Ieste of a shrewde and curst Wyfe" (also called "A wife in Morel's Skin" in later printings, I think?)
If you're going to call it a fad, then you've got to at least go back to the 1990s with Seinfeld (that's about where my chart starts to tick up - it was the subject of an epsidoe). So at this point it's a 30 year old fad. OED disagrees though - apparently it's been in as a verb since the 1500s
December 21, 2024 at 6:24 PM
If you're going to call it a fad, then you've got to at least go back to the 1990s with Seinfeld (that's about where my chart starts to tick up - it was the subject of an epsidoe). So at this point it's a 30 year old fad. OED disagrees though - apparently it's been in as a verb since the 1500s
Let's not be rude here, this is just a discussion of prescriptivism. "Giving gifts" has been transformed to gifting because enough people see a meaningful distinction. A distinction they've been seeing since at least the 1800s. Let me gift you a chart on the topic.
December 21, 2024 at 6:21 PM
Let's not be rude here, this is just a discussion of prescriptivism. "Giving gifts" has been transformed to gifting because enough people see a meaningful distinction. A distinction they've been seeing since at least the 1800s. Let me gift you a chart on the topic.