Gotten...

[jonny jeez]

Please stop it.

That is all. Carry on.

Has anyone watched any episodes of the gadget show on channel five. Amy Williams is currently a presenter. She has a warm clear speaking and is very well pronounced...except for a bizarre inability to pronounce the phrase "ing".

I'm not being snobbish here, it's not that she doesn't speak nicely but she never...ever finishes a word ending in "ing" it's infuriatin, especially when it's happenin all of the time. It's almost like she is doin it for comedic effect

 

[Lullabelle]

Isn't black coffee what you get if you just ask for Americano? To get the milk I always seem to have to say 'with hot milk'.

I drink tea

 

[CopperBrompton]

can the infants please stop bickering

Yeah, the thread has gotten a bit out of hand.

 

[threebikesmcginty]

[QUOTE 3483658, member: 259"]Anyway, the way things are going, in fifty years we'll all be speaking like Kylie Minogue.[/QUOTE]

I should be so lucky.

 

[pplpilot]

Bloody hell, i nip to the bog* for 24hrs and a debate about coffee breaks out.



*I would take the ipad but the signal isnt strong enough in the upstairs toilet.

 

[threebikesmcginty]

Anyone who's still got their Santa hat on at this time of year deserves everything they're going to gotten.

 

[threebikesmcginty]

[QUOTE 3484017, member: 45"]Git.[/QUOTE]

Oh yes, everything they're going to git. Nobber.

 

[robjh]

I, for one, like the word and use it here on cc, so I am really glad that several others have gotten around to pointing out that it is not an American import but a revival of an old English word!

Yebbut....if it's been absent east of the Atlantic for several centuries, then it comes back as an import.

I suspect it's probably never gone away in some British dialects but I can't find much real evidence. Did anyone here grow up in an area in the UK where all the old people said 'gotten' ? If so where?

 

[pplpilot]

Anyone who's still got their Santa hat on at this time of year deserves everything they're going to gotten.

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Like i said in another post a week or so back, I just cant be arsed to change it...

 

[robjh]

It is in common usage in the phrase "ill gotten gains".

Indeed. But we were talking about 'gotten' as the everyday past participle of 'get', which is where there is a change creeping quietly into UK usage.

I found something about 'gotten' in older Yorkshire dialects, but not much.

 

[Gravity Aided]

[QUOTE 3484009, member: 45"]Try asking for a white coffee in Burger King at Paddington Station....

White coffee please.

Latte?

No. A white coffee please.

That's a Latte.

No it's not. I'd like a white coffee please.

We only do Latte.

OK. I'd like a black coffee please. And some milk.

Of course.

....so the plum behind the counter gives me a black coffee and two of those little cartons of vile uht milk.[/QUOTE]
You went to Burger King, looking for coffee.
Whul, thars' y'all first mistake.
Now, BK has merged with Tim Horton's,
so draw your own conclusions about Canadian Coffee.
I have never gotten a good cup of coffee in a railway station.
Great great great grandfather was from Yorkshire, I might add.

 

[robjh]

What part of speech do you think it is in the phrase I quoted?

a past participle used adjectivally in a fixed (and fossilised) phrase.

 

[ayceejay]

ah Tim Horton's. We get (got git?) drive thru coffee from them, we ask for a medium coffee and two cups - sometimes without drama.

 

[hoopdriver]

Indeed. But we were talking about 'gotten' as the everyday past participle of 'get', which is where there is a change creeping quietly into UK usage.

I found something about 'gotten' in older Yorkshire dialects, but not much.

Do I take it then that had you been born 200 years ago you would have been up on your soapbox decrying the new and vulgar trend of shortening 'gotten' (which had not a damn thing wrong with it) to 'got'?

It is a perfectly acceptable word which is coming around again in the cycle of fashionability.

 

[threebikesmcginty]

[QUOTE 3484147, member: 45"]The only place to buy coffee at Paddington Station is McDonald's.[/QUOTE]

The only place to buy coffee at St Panc is Sourced Market, the Monmouth Coffee Co organic espresso beans are superb. Everyone else is selling mud.