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(I helped save b3ta! rob, Sun 1 Apr 2001, 1:00)
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I speak and write in what that article abbreviates to BrE - British English in which 'gotten' is not used.
That's where.
(I helped save b3ta! Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 16 Aug 2011, 15:29, 1 reply, 15 years ago)
Oh sorry
this good enough for you?
www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/gotten
I would go OED but that's behind a pay wall.
(PsychoChomp, Tue 16 Aug 2011, 15:32, Reply)
Probably not.
seeing as it's an american dictionary.
(I helped save b3ta! CQ Knows the truth, all of it., Tue 16 Aug 2011, 15:34, Reply)
Webster was American
In fact, I think he was the one responsible for standardising American English, although he would have used a "z" for that.
oxforddictionaries.com/definition/gotten
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Hahah
'The form gotten is not used in British English'
(I helped save b3ta! Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 16 Aug 2011, 15:39, Reply)
Still a "real word" though isn't it?

(PsychoChomp, Tue 16 Aug 2011, 15:40, Reply)
not according to Monty's theory

(I helped save b3ta! CQ Knows the truth, all of it., Tue 16 Aug 2011, 15:44, Reply)
I don't think Monty recognises US independence either.
Damned colonials not towing the line again, old boy.
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I still refer to Rhodesia and Abyssinia.

(I helped save b3ta! Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 16 Aug 2011, 15:48, Reply)
So America is "The colonies"?

(I helped save b3ta! CQ Knows the truth, all of it., Tue 16 Aug 2011, 15:53, Reply)
Of course.

(I helped save b3ta! Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 16 Aug 2011, 15:56, Reply)
This is the line I take.
and chompy's stopped replying which is as close as he seems to get to admitting someone else is right.
(I helped save b3ta! CQ Knows the truth, all of it., Tue 16 Aug 2011, 16:00, Reply)
I can't believe you, of all people, didn't do this:
toeing the line.
(I helped save b3ta! Noeli overtheshoulderboulderholderthingstraplatchboobs, Tue 16 Aug 2011, 16:04, Reply)
Gaaah!
I am hanging my head in shame.
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So I can't refer to my ill gotten gains any more after I've been out looting?

(I helped save b3ta! Peej, Tue 16 Aug 2011, 16:13, Reply)
Not in this country

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*belms*
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(I helped save b3ta! Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 16 Aug 2011, 15:37, Reply)

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