Re: USAGE: gotten, boughten
| From: | Roger Mills <romilly@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, June 24, 2002, 19:01 |
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Tony Hogard wrote:
>Also shrunk-shrunken. My wife and I were just discussing these
>participle forms yesterday. The prescriptivist in me cringed when
>she used "boughten", though. I didn't think it was standard AmE
>usage.
>
I don't think it is either, though I suppose it could become so. Seems to
have very limited use, and in my group semi-humorous-- bread only?
"boughten" as opposed to home-made, back in the days when we made our own..
I dont recall ever hearing it used routinely/seriously with any other noun.
A boughten car? A boughten puppy/kitten? No no no.
But even as long ago as the 40s, kids in my grade-school class were using it
as the past part. of buy, which of course gave the teachers apoplexy.
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