Gifts That Keep on Giving
Nov 06, 2019
2 minutes
There are two words for what we give at Christmas: gift is the Old English word, and the more formal present comes from the Norman French, originally used in the sense of bringing something into the presence of someone, presenting something – a sense that we still use in formal introductions.
I prefer the intimacy of the Old English word.
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