Re: USAGE: gotten, boughten

Thomas R. Wier:

> FWIW, I've never heard that word in active use in my entire life,
> either, and I've lived most of my life in Texas. Were I to
> hear it in active use (and did not know better from this discussion
> that people actually do use it), I would assume that the person
> using it is trying to affect a false archaic dialect, or has
> unusually generalized a very unproductive morpheme. From the
> respondents who've said they've heard it or use it, my impression
> is that its a characteristic of US Midwestern dialects.
My wife was raised in Houston, but may have gotten "boughten" (heh)
from her Ohioan family.

-Tone