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[Maizie]

Really odd, having this debate on another forum too!
I know someone from Leicestershire who has a 'mom', people always think she picked it up in her year working in the US, but in her family the mothers have always been mom/mommy. It is definitely a regional UK thing.

Gotten I usually do find annoying, mainly because people are using it as a borrowed Americanism, rather than as an archaic British-English word (of which I would thoroughly approve). Forgot/Forgotten still works in British-English, though, it's just got/gotten that isn't right

 

[colly]

[quote name='swee'pea99']My kids (10 & 13) keep referring to 'High School'. And they're both showing worrying signs of that rising intonation at the end of sentences? The one they've all caught from watching Neighbours? And Home & Away? Grrrr![/quote]

I have just had a couple of nieces staying and the 16 yr old always speaks with that grinding rising intonation too.
They are from Saff Landun so coupled with fanks, fink and fort and innit the past week or so has been hard on the ears .

I guess rather than I suppose is something which has crept in as well.

 

[trustysteed]

i say 'mom' because 'mum' sounds too wet