Re: USAGE: gotten, boughten

In a message dated Tue, 25 Jun 2002 3:34:02 PM Eastern Standard Time,
agricola@MAILSTATION.COM writes:

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> Elliott wrote:
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> >I second that motion...boughten? weird..Never heard a New Yorker >say it,
> >never hear a Californian say it, never heard any one from the >East Coast say
> >it..never heard any one from the West Coast say it. >The one person I know
> >from Indiana, would never say it..It's just odd.
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> Downstaters! There _is_ that little bit sticking off the City called "New York State",
> you know! ;) I've heard it (boughten as an adj.) from northern NY state. Way
> up north (NY
> _does_ continue past ALbany. Even past Watertown!
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> Padraic.
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> >Elliott Lash.