"Pennyaline" > wrote in
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> Oh, I'm sorry. Maybe the fact that my English major is my second, and
> Nursing is my first (financial aid to train in Nursing was plentiful and
> easy to get back then). I finished my BA in 1999, so it wasn't quite the
> Stone Age, and I was 40 so I wasn't too terribly impressionable or
stupid...>

> Sorry guys, but GIFT is wrong. It's one of the products of sound bite
> mentality, where day to day language and usage is shaped to resemble
> advertisements. Frankly, I couldn't care less if you find it in the OED.
> That it's there doesn't mean it's correct. It only means that it's used.

Do you work in a hospital where athoritative texts are ignored? Would you
tell me the name of this dangerous institution?