Re: USAGE: gotten, boughten

I personally don't remember ever hearing "boughten" before this.


-Stephen (Steg)
 "old linguists never die;
  they just come to voiceless stops."


On Mon, 24 Jun 2002 15:10:31 EDT Eli Ewing <CelticSlim@...> writes:
boughten is another word I commonly use as a past participle (that is, on
those rare occasions I use past participles).  Gotten, boughten.  Not
sure about drunken - I can't remember using that except for an adjective.
 I've never used (usen?) gotten or boughten as an adjective.

the dictionary folks seem to think that forms like gotten and boughten
are going out of use.  perhaps they're in that strange limbo between
"old, but still acceptable" and "what century do you live in?" and the
direction to which they lean depends (of course) largely on where you are
in the country.

FWIW, my teachers in middle and high school always taught us to use "got"
and "bought" as p.p.'s.  I think they sound funny.

Eli