Re: USAGE: gotten, boughten

oops, i sent a blank email, sorry.

What i wanted to say was: Did we really have to count Upstate New York? Things
would have been much simpler if we stuck with NYC, Westchester and Rockland.
hehe :)

just kidding guys.

Elliott.

agricola@MAILSTATION.COM writes:

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>
> Elliott wrote:
>
> >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.
>
> 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!
>
> Padraic.
>
> >Elliott Lash.