I prefer it.
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Traitor!
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We retain a lot of older Anglicisms on this side of the pond, including especially pronunciation.
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Yep. I found the most useful way to track this was to get a copy of a Shakespeare play glossed for Americans and glossed for Brits. It's amazing how much difference there is in what needs to be glossed and what does not. Shows the split in the languages very clearly.
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I use 'gotten'. Don't worry, you're not falling prey to the insidious influence of the colonies. You're becoming illuminated by the glorious enlightenment of Yorkshire.
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I am an American, born and raised, and yet use ‘gotten’. Was there a Yorkshire ghost in the Oregon house where I grew up?
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No, Gotten was Middle and Early Modern English. It travelled to America and remained. It disappeared from British English except from in Yorkshire which retains much more of earlier English than the rest of the country.
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Ah. One more thing we rightly retained over here...
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*trans-Atlantic linguistic legacy high five*
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I say embrace it. I deliberately use the Americanism “season” now when talking about TV. Because “There were five series in that series.” just gets too confusing. Also we should probably adopt “y’all”. And the US should take “Autumn” in exchange.
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Agree on the “y’all” but will offer “reckon” in concession to both the Brits & the South.
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Don’t you mean colonisation?
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Maybe after analogy with "forgotten"? And why not? Say whatever you like any way you want.
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Me and my boyfriend have just been debating this. I'm from North West and he's from the Midlands. Gotton is the past continuous, got is the past, get is the present, getting is the present continuous. i.e. 'A land once forgotten' implies it has been and continues to be forgot
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