Use of "gift"

It's not natural in British English.

Mr. TomHi,Some Indian writers use the word gift this way. Is it correct/natural at all?Who gifted you this T-shirt?My father gifted me this watch on my tenth birthday.Thanks,Tom

(BrE speaker.) The use of "gift" as a verb to describe the giving of small personal presents is -- or was -- alien to me, but I increasingly hear it in marketing and advertising materi

Mr. TomHi,Some Indian writers use the word gift this way. Is it correct/natural at all?Who gifted you this T-shirt?My father gifted me this watch on my tenth birthday.Thanks,Tom

I don't hear it as much as the verb "regift". That's when you give someone something you yourself previously received as a gift, especially if you didn't like the gift very much.

I hear the verb gift rather frequently, and I do not like it at all and do not use it. Strangely enough, however, regift doesn't sound so bad to me (but my spell check doesn't accept it). What's a person to do!

...and it just flitted through my mind -- and perhaps I should have started a new thread for this. But what about present? Does it work at all?

My father presented me this T-shirt on my tenth birthday.

A- That's a nice pen.
B- It's a present.
A- And who presented you such a nice pen?

Tom

Mr. TomDoes it work at all?My father presented me this T-shirt on my tenth birthday.A- That's a nice pen.B- It's a present.A- And who presented you such a nice pen?

It works well enough for me; a bit formal—a small ceremony, as Clive suggests.