Can I set Drush to always use verbose? Its quite annoying to have to type -v.

Is there a way to change the drush settings so that it will always use verbose mode so I dont have to bother typing -v?
This works for me in Drush 5.

In a drushrc.php file (I tested with my ~/.drush/drushrc.php you could do this per-project as well).

I simply added:

$options['v'] = TRUE; somewhere in the file. Then try issueing drush commands.

This works because of how drush_parse_args executes.