Another Linguist Abomination

I haven't posted anything for a while, but I've just read an email that refers to 'gifting' something. Grrrrrr! Gift is a noun, not a verb! Therefore you cannot 'gift' something, you can only give it. I don't know which illiterate idiot decided to use 'gift' as a verb - quite possibly the same one who invented such other pompous and incorrect terms as 'up-skilling' ('skill' isn't a verb, either!) - but I wish they'd stop mutilating the English language, which is already so richly supplied with appropriate words that we don't need to invent new abominations. Grrrrrr, I say, and grrrrrr again! Have a look at a dictionary, for goodness's sake!