Re: USAGE: gotten, boughten
| From: | agricola <agricola@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, June 25, 2002, 20:34 |
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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.