AIBU to think gotten isn't a word?

[ItsJustNotRight]

Quick vent, I've seen it on countless posts over the last few days, when did it become a word?

So, in other words it is Old English. The Americans have kept it, but the English stopped using it. Same as the letter 'z' as a previous poster noted. Hence why we think of it as American.

But isn't the fact that people today don't speak "proper" doric proof that the use of "gotten" is a word thats slipped into Doric speakers (and everyone else in the UK) day to day vocabulary as a result of the increasing Americanisation of UK English and not actually proper doric?

As an aside, my dad's friend used to and it was like listening to someone speak French. I was always a good few sentences behind trying to keep up. And I was born and grew up in Aberdeenshire.

It's used in Ireland too.

Even if it were 'American', it would still be a word. YABU.

Of course it's a word. A perfectly acceptable word that millions of native speakers of English use every day. HTH.

There are quite a few usages that were older British forms of English that we Americans kept and y'all ditched. "Fall" for autumn is another one.

Lovely, thank you all , it's been educational and brightened up my dull evening. No threats of violence, no bun fight. I'll try and relax when I hear it and refuse to let it set my teeth on edge anymore.

I'm not from a Doric speaking part of Scotland, but from much further north.

I use both got and gotten. I tend to use gotten with the past perfect tense.

Its a word that has slipped into UK usage, in a reverse of the way it slipped out!