Hi, Mom! I'm back. My telephone line was dead. But it's alive now.

I would like to briefly return to the subject of verbing, if I may.

I endure most verbing stoically, but there's one word that really gets under my skin. I'm referring to "gifting". Why did some damned fool thing it was necessary to make "gift" into a verb when there's already a perfectly good verb, "give", that means the same thing and does the job quite well? When a gift is gifted should we say we are happy to have receipted it?