OFF: "gotten"?
Dave Berry
daveb at HARLEQUIN.CO.UK
Wed May 21 08:25:00 EDT 1997
On 21 May 01:14, Carl Edlund Anderson wrote:
> I think even in the UK one can say sentances like "We have gotten
> completely pissed every day this week". ;) Or, on a more sober note ;)
> "We've not gotten paid for the work I did."
I've never heard "gotten" used in the UK.
Dave.
--
Harlequin Ltd., Technology Transfer Centre, King's Buildings,
Mayfield Road, Edinburgh, EH9 3JL, UK.
Tel: +44 131 668 1564
More information about the boc-l
mailing list