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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There's a whole slew of words that got picked up by dumb people or people trying to sound smarter than they are that are now infiltrating regular use.

"Gift" as a verb. It sounds SO stupid coming from a native speaker. Like how do you speak English as a first language and not know that verbs and nouns are different. Do you gift a gift? OMG my DH gifted me a gift of a gift card! Adult is headed that way too. "Yay for successfully adulting." This one at least is still a little tongue-in-cheek, but people will talk about gifting someone something with a perfectly straight face; I don't think they're trying to be silly. I think they honestly don't know how wrong and dumb it is.

And "comfortability." Especially since the pandemic. "We need to assess everyone's comfortability with indoor events." Do you mean... [i]comfort[/i]?

Makes me think less of anyone who does it. 
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These are my peeves, also. I would add "the dog likes to be pet.". And "she text me." I hate these with an irrational passion.[/quote]

I would add, "drug" used as the past participle of "to drag."  "I drug it out of there" = nails on the chalkboard.

Naturally, it's a Southern U.S. usage.  [/quote]

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