Re: Free Wi-Fi at mcDonalds


"Charles Lindsey" <chl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:Jqq1JB.KAF@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
In <14vbi3l7qb7kte6o74heq2l80oditcqval@xxxxxxx> Cheemag <cheemag@xxxxxxxx> writes:

On Sun, 28 Oct 2007 11:49:48 -0500, Grooove <grooove@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Cheemag <cheemag@xxxxxxxx> wrote in
news:9o59i3l7btj04c47e2o93klnea1akal9pf@xxxxxxx:

spew-provking "gonna", "I see where you're coming from", "fall"
increasingly for autumn, "meter" for metre, "center" for centre and so
their illiterate spelling abounds everywhere.


The one that *really* winds me up is "gotten"

lol, 2 countries divided by a common language..

Ah, but to be fair, "gotten" is in fact old English and
not an American invention, as I think are "to visit with" and
"to speak with"

Moreover, what is the past participle of "get" if it is not "gotten"?

"getted"? "gotted"? "gat"?


Got.
The Americans have confused "get" and "beget". The past participle of the former is "got"; of the latter "begotten".

Ed

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