Yes, nouning verbs and verbing nouns has been a feature of English for centuries. I have been binge listening to an addictive podcast series “History of English Podcast” and there have been countless examples demonstrated where due to Norse, French, Latin, and Old German influences, verbs came to be used as nouns and nouns as verbs. I am on hour 135 of 159 episodes that have been released over the past few years. The excellent podcaster is up to about 1569. I cringe when someone queries “What is your ask?” I want to respond with “here is my ask…gift me your tell”. Google Docs offers to correct “gift” to “give” above. Extreming, if you gift me a present, should I present you with a give in return? Google wants to correct those nouny-verby words also. I am not the only person offended with “gifting”. In a recent Atlantic article, Megan Garber describes word aversion in “Gift is not a Verb”. She offers a history of “gifting”. 'Gift' Is Not a Verb - The Atlantic[^] She not only geeks with a Google NGram view of “gift” mis-usage since 1800 with its exponential explosion in the 90’s, but she nerds with a great Seinfeld clip on “Regifters”. "Gifting" is what you do when gifts are things you check off a list, trudging between Williams-Sonoma and Bath & Body Works in search of that perfect gift certificate.” The next time someone mis-uses “ask” in a meeting, assignment them to status you on their progress in ridding their dialog with improper use of “ask”.