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Originally Posted by badgoodDeb
That’s an Americanism? I’d have thought it was just a modern shortening of “begotten” which is solidly King James Bible terms, and comes from the UK shores!
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It was the droves of Daily Telegraph readers that went into meltdown over the use of "gotten", and referred to it as an "Americanism".
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https://www.grammarbook.com/blog/eff...iews-on-gotten
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Many English speakers from outside North America resist the encroachment of so-called Americanisms . . . and, for mysterious reasons, some feel especially strongly about gotten.
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The irony is that the people who post comments on The Telegraph are the sort of people who can't get enough of Jacob Rees-Mogg, Boris Johnson etc.
BR