VERY important poll. Seriously important. The most important poll of all.

[Left Is Write]

Using "gift" as a verb. Yea or nay?

[Shine]

1. Sure. I use that word as a verb all the time.

in fact, I was very gifted by your poll. It touched me deeply. :D heheheh.

[idgiehkt]

7. truly evil

:headbang:

[ScreamingMeemie]

2. Well, if you're wishing to gift me with your presence here on DU...

I'm okay with it! :hi:

[terrya]

3. A gift is a noun.

It cannot be used as a verb. Not in my world. :-)

[Kutjara]

4. Every time I hear it...

...I want to gift the utterer with a smack in the mouth.

[SteppingRazor]

5. Well, you can present a present!

:evilgrin:

That said, no, gift is not a verb. I think of it as one of those noun-to-verb words that only snooty upper class people use, like "summer."

[Deja Q]

6. Speaking of giving 'gift'...

Yea for me...

:yoiks:

[NNadir]

8. I have voted against verbating "gift."

[Left Is Write]

9. And the "nos" have it four to one!

For the record, I voted "no."

[Gormy Cuss]

10. Gift is bad enough, but regift is wrong on so many levels.

Counting down 'til the regifting protest begins.
5...4...3...

[Oeditpus Rex]

11. You can't imagine how much this poll has impacted me

:crazy:

[Boojatta]

12. "Bequeath" is a verb, but nobody who does it lives to talk about it.