I have gotten thoroughly sick of...

[FellatioNelson]

The recent adoption of the word 'gotten' by British people. It's spreading everywhere like a nasty rash. I've even seen reasonably intelligent journalists using it.

It needs to STOP. NOW. GRRRR.

Yes, British people shouldn't be allowed to change the way they speak.

It's an outrage the way language develops.

I just need to add that I know it is a proper word, but it really needs to be used in the right context, and people are not using it in the right context. Or perhaps technically they are, I don't know, but it is clearly an adopted Americanism and therefore I am cross.

OK, just looked it up and it is archaic, so technically I suppose it is allowable, but I will only allow it very begrudgingly.

It's still something that has been adopted largely by da yoof and picked up from too much American TV, and therefore is not to be tolerated lightly.

I feel you

I dislike the American use of "gotten" intensely myself, even when Americans use it, and it's standard usage for them.

English is nicer when got and gotten are two separate words with their own meanings and uses :)

American English does weird things to past tense conditionals - "If I would have" instead of "If I had". I hope that never makes it here.

So let us never speak of it again :o

It's old English that is still around, not just from America. I think particularly yorkshire but might be wrong on that.

It's old English that is still around, not just from America. I think particularly yorkshire but might be wrong on that.

I think it is Irish usage too

It's not standard Irish usage.

I've only ever come across it in America.

Fellatio - I'm with you: it's horrid. Wasn't aware it was an old English word though! Still horrid.

FN - you know I love you but I have to disagree. Much though I don't like it myself and wouldn't use it, this has been done lots of times on here (sorry!) and it's in common usage in the Black Country and the Midlands and probably other areas of the UK as well. Regional use of language can sound very wrong to other regions but it isn't necessarily and the regions involved get, rightfully IMO, a bit ticked off at being told how wrong they are when they aren't really.

However, if you really want to get cross about something, I'll lend you this one:
the creeping prevalence of American medical spellings, e.g. estrogen instead of oestrogen (making finding it in US medical text books a pain in the bum), fetus instead of foetus, fecal instead of faecal, heme instead of haem and the latest and bloody annoying it is too - sulfur instead of sulphur.

I used to work in blood labs. We used to get foetal cord samples for blood testing sometimes. Once we got a poo sample instead because the doc who had written the form out had written fetal but the t looked too much like a c (fecal) so we got poo instead. Not good.

Arf. That's horrible!

It's annoying, but not as annoying as people saying "should of" instead of "should have". Grrrrrr