Re: USAGE: gotten, boughten
| From: | Thomas R. Wier <trwier@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, June 26, 2002, 10:36 |
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Quoting Eli Ewing <CelticSlim@...>:
> FWIW (probably not much) I took a little informal poll of fellow
> midwesterners at work. The overall consensus was to use gotten and bought.
> Almost everyone thought "got" sounded funny as a participle and most people
> (but not everyone) thought "boughten" sounded idiotic.
What generation were these midwesterners? It seemed to me from
our discussion that most of the people who used/heard it used
were Baby-Boomers or older. It could be that it once characterized
Midwestern dialects, but has since fallen out of use.
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