"Ray & Kathy Albertson" > wrote in message
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> "wbw" > wrote in message
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> > In chi.forsale Pennyaline
> > wrote:
> > Sorry to burst your bubble, but my OED (New Shorter, 1993) has the
> > following as its second entry for "gift":
> >
> > gift /gift/ v.t. L16. [f. the n.] 1 Endow or provide with a gift or
gifts;
> > endow or present with as a gift. L16. 2 Bestow as a gift (foll. by
to);
> > give away. E17.
>
> This usage is very common in the legal parlance of estate planning as
well,
> and I believe "re-gift" is a neologism created by the writers of Seinfeld

OK , OK The damn lawyers did it .I'll buy that one.
Jack