Klarinet Archive - Posting 000277.txt from 2000/11

From: A4ACHESON@-----.com
Subj: Re: Re: [kl] gotten
Date: Sun, 5 Nov 2000 10:35:39 -0500

In a message dated 5/11/00 2:30:10 pm, tony-wakefield wrote:

<<is "gotten" also a word which travelled across to the New
World, i.e. ancient English?
(I have my doubts). I would hazard a guess that it is a pure American
corruption.>>

My copy of 'The New Elizabethan Reference Dictionary' gives 'gotten' as p.p.
of 'get'.
'The New Elizabethan Reference Dictionary' was published by Newnes in London,
undated, but I think the Elizabeth of the title was not Elizabeth The First.

"Wealth gotten by vanity shall be diminished; but he that gathereth by labour
shall increase."
Proverbs 13:11

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