Re: have got

From: Brian M. Scott (b.scott_at_csuohio.edu)
Date: 07/24/04 

Date: Sat, 24 Jul 2004 07:03:08 -0400

On 24 Jul 2004 05:27:45 -0500 endipatterson
<endipatterson@yahoo-dot-com.no-spam.invalid> wrote in
<news:410239a1$1_1@127.0.0.1> in sci.lang:

> It would seem that "got" and "gotten" still exist side by side in US
> English, Brian, although "got" has a very specific use.

What on earth is your point? Of course they do -- but not
as past participles of <to get>, as they once did.

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Brian