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Originally Posted by SneakySnake
I like 'gotten'. It sounds very old. Now I guess I will have to 'google it'  |
It is indeed old, and was used in British English prior to about the late 18th century (Shakespeare uses it a lot, for example). It's a word that fell out of use in British English, but continued in American English. Most British English speakers probably think of it as an "Americanism", but it isn't.