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sparkmaster.
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Someone tell Sainsbury's.
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Report a bitofinterest • November 22, 2009 6:56 PM GMT
MARVELLOUS STUFF
Report V4 Vendetta • November 22, 2009 6:57 PM GMT
It is now.
Report BillKiller • November 22, 2009 6:58 PM GMT
Presenting has been taken by numpties on the telly
Report canaryboy • November 22, 2009 6:59 PM GMT
tr.v. gift·ed, gift·ing, gifts
1. To present something as a gift to.
2. To endow with.
Report sparkmaster. • November 22, 2009 7:04 PM GMT
jut because it's in a fecking dictionary doesn't make it a fecking word! You give something it becomes a gift. The word is giving.

You tell a tale. There's no word 'taling' meaning the same as telling.

What are you going to be gifting this xmas. Feck right off!
Report BillKiller • November 22, 2009 7:07 PM GMT
Unaccustomed as I am to contradicting blokes what have been to university, I believe gifting was once used as a verb when speaking of things in one's gift, such as church benefices.
Report canaryboy • November 22, 2009 7:08 PM GMT
you can't compare with other words

the english language doesn't have a strict formula

i think i've gifted you enough of my time now
Report everythings gone green • November 22, 2009 7:11 PM GMT
INSTORE is not a word either.

Try telling all the major supermarkets.
Report sparkmaster. • November 22, 2009 7:11 PM GMT
I think you've given us all enough of your time.
Report canaryboy • November 22, 2009 7:12 PM GMT
you appear to be seething
Report slimfast • November 22, 2009 7:12 PM GMT
Spark, you've been gifted the opportunity to retire gracefully. Do it now old boy.
Report sparkmaster. • November 22, 2009 7:15 PM GMT
Never, sir.
Report thelibertine • November 22, 2009 7:16 PM GMT
I hate the made up American word "envision" where they mean envisage!
Report slimfast • November 22, 2009 7:16 PM GMT
It shouldn't be used in the sense of giving presents, but it is still useful in other circumstances.
Report positively4thsteet • November 22, 2009 7:20 PM GMT
allusion. not illusion. Allusion
Report slimfast • November 22, 2009 7:26 PM GMT
They mean different things positively...
Report positively4thsteet • November 22, 2009 7:30 PM GMT
i know. was just funny when the guy said it in one flew over the cuckoo nest
Report slimfast • November 22, 2009 7:36 PM GMT
Oh sry, don't remember that bit.
Report Velasquez • November 22, 2009 7:49 PM GMT
Sparkmaster - language Nazi!
Report infomaniac • November 22, 2009 7:53 PM GMT
Every little helps !
Report Ghostbusters 2 • November 22, 2009 8:08 PM GMT
what about re-gifting
Report Big Charlie • November 23, 2009 1:51 PM GMT
Sparky wears his pants on the outside and holds them up with suspenders while he struts along the sidewalk to the gift center.
Report Big Charlie • November 23, 2009 4:30 PM GMT
I'll talk to my facking self then.
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