Re: 'Forgot your password?'

Maria C. wrote:
Mike Page wrote:

Is 'Forgot your password?' grammatical where you come from?

It's certainly understood.

"Forgot your password?" would be an abbreviated version of "Have you forgot your password" (which in some AmE dialects {such as mine} would be "Have you forgotten your password?"

Also used:
[Did you] "Forget your password?"
[Do you] "Need help?"
[Are you] "Having problems with [whatever]?"

Why do you ask? Do you see it as poor usage?


I do. It is not modern grammatical speech, in the UK, but I wondered whether is was in the USA or elsewhere. It certainly seems quite common on websites, but it is difficult to persuaded Google to ignore different forms of the word to work out just how common.

Once upon a time it might have been a possible form in the UK, as in gunpowder treason, 'We have forgot the fart', etc.

I ask because a section of the website of my learned and august institution uses the form 'forgot'.

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Mike Page
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