Re: USAGE: gotten

 --- Eli Ewing wrote:

> FWIW, in my area of the States, we avoid past participles of the verb get,
> and thus we use "got" in most cases, however, on those strange occasions
> where we need a p.p., we almost always use gotten.  Just a wild guess, but it
> could be the fact that almost everyone around here is German.
It doubt it, because a German would rather do the opposite, in the form of
over-using pass participles. Okay, I'm not German, I admit it, but in this case
Dutch and German work more or less the same. Besides, there are still plenty
people who believe Dutch is in fact a German dialect.

Jan

=====
"Originality is the art of concealing your source." - Franklin P. Jones

__________________________________________________
Do You Yahoo!?
Everything you'll ever need on one web page
from News and Sport to Email and Music Charts
http://uk.my.yahoo.com