Despite the grating 'gotten' is okay. Look it up in your Oxford. Another one that's interesting is plow, that, in UK English is plough. Plow is older and closer to the original than plough.
Don John Francis wrote: > On Tue, Jan 09, 2007 at 04:07:41PM +0100, Thibouille wrote: > >> I think those are nice example but they do not generate any buzz in my brain. >> >> Variations like Elevator/Lift are more notable and Through / Thru is >> like touching Reset button of my computer. Same with Night/Nite ... I >> feel like those american spellings jumping into my eyes and making fun >> of me ;) >> > > The ones that grate to my ear are things like "gotten" instead of "got". > > There are also words like "burglarized", which sounds really odd to me. > Imagine my surprise when the OED shows this as the original variant; > "burgled" is a much newer formation. > > -- Dr E D F Williams www.kolumbus.fi/mimosa/ http://personal.inet.fi/cool/don.williams/ 41660 TOIVAKKA – Finland - +358400706616 -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
