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Old 03-14-2014, 11:10 PM   #13115
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Originally Posted by Bookpossum View Post
What about:

got and gotten

We only use the latter these days in a phrase like ill-gotten gains.
I'd thought of this and decided not to allow variations in verb tenses, as it would admit all the constructions of the learnt(UK) v. learned(US) type. I'm sorry; I should have made that explicit also.
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