As @Nanny Beach says icky, also yummy and any other words a two year old would use. On the news the other night, the cliffs are retreating back, can they retreat forward?
Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor.
The word ‘gotten’, especially when dropped into a novel supposedly set in England - don’t American writers think to get their work proof read by a native english speaker before it goes to publication? I enjoyed the book otherwise, but that really grated on me.
‘Gotten’ is one of those words that the early settlers took with them from England to the Americas … as is ‘arksed’ … they both went out of fashion here, but stayed in common usage over here.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
To add evidence to Dove’s post, in Chaucer’s Knight’s Tale
“… Yow loveres axe I now this questioun.”
We retain gotten in forgotten. For completeness, Americans maintain got as well as gotten but with different meanings.
For ownership or obligation they would say got I have got a cat I have got to weed
For becoming, obtaining or entering the word is gotten I have gotten lazy in retirement I have gotten a new lawnmower Weevils have gotten into the compost
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On the news the other night, the cliffs are retreating back, can they retreat forward?
When you don't even know who's in the team
S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
“… Yow loveres axe I now this questioun.”
We retain gotten in forgotten. For completeness, Americans maintain got as well as gotten but with different meanings.
For ownership or obligation they would say got
I have got a cat
I have got to weed
For becoming, obtaining or entering the word is gotten
I have gotten lazy in retirement
I have gotten a new lawnmower
Weevils have gotten into the compost
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.