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“But I will say this, I am a man of my word, and never has my word gotten anybody into trouble with the law or otherwise.”
“Hope that some of the answers and advice you've gotten is of help in your particular situation.”
“The family's new lawyer, Michael Sussman, told The Associated Press on Tuesday that "every account we have gotten is contrary to what police have told the press, so yes, there is skepticism.”
The Huffington Post: Danroy Henry's Death Questioned By Investigators
“I have searched everywhere and the best response I have gotten is "get an oven thermometer”
“After six months of trying to be accommodating to the minority party -- something his predecessor didn't even fake -- all he's gotten is nothing, unless you call the usual right-wing vitriol and victimhood "something.”
“The evidence for how bad things have gotten is spelled out in Alliance for Justice's new report on judicial nominations that covers the Obama Administration's first 20 months in office.”
The Huffington Post: Nan Aron: Republican Obstruction is Holding the Judicial System Hostage
“I've been on this site for over a year and the only contacts I've gotten is 2 scam messages!”
“I do sell physical CDs off my website, but in general, I think most people have turned over to this digital age of music, where they're buying an album for ten bucks on iTunes, and the artist is seeing six or seven dollars of that, compared to the fifteen dollars they would have gotten from the sale of a physical version of it.”
“Everybody gives Palin a hard time because time and time again she says and does things that show she deserves every bit of the approbation she has gotten from the public and the press.”
“I have asked this question of most of the Democratic members of the House and Senate thorugh e-mail (at least to those who allow out of state/out of district e-mails) but the only response I have ever gotten is a request for donations.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘gotten’.
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• Wordies talk about themselves
Sometimes users are also persons.
llogos, peter stickles, old age, 39, insomnia, frown of approval, chuck norris, ovular, gay, fencing, rabbits, seven empty cups ... and 137 more...
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cindywrites's Words
chiaroscuro, mollycoddle, feckless, evocative, provocative, invocation, beckon, allay, becalm, console, lull, soothe and 479 more...
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Favorite Verbs and Verb Forms
Culling my main Favorites list, and noticing how few of my favorite words are verbs. I'll have to work on that...
stupefy, eschew, gurgle, affianced, imbue, disconcerting, schlep, begrimed, wizened, woolgathering, lounge, flank and 94 more...
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Some Wednesday words
Just another arbitrary list of words that come up for me today, June 20 2007
tutelage, hobby horse, abracadabra, occipital, martinet, margarita, persona, cute, sharp, acute, confabulate, conspire and 97 more...
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SomeOldDoor's list
Lovely words.
clover, cedar, bromide, glyph, belfry, glance, vehemently, well, flourish, plaintive, clarion, element and 169 more...
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Detest, Despise, Dislike, Abhor
These are the words that I wish to be stricken from language.
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TN5 Lesson 60
reception, soon, dressed, sweetheart, noticed, nightgown, evening gown, lobby, water fountain, left-hand, right-hand, receptionist and 22 more...
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OM3 Lesson 19
application, interview, gotten, single, hang in there, well-qualified, land, unemployed, employed, drunk, once, taste and 13 more...
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Talk like frindley
Suggestions of frindley idioms that have caught your eye but which aren't yet listed, perhaps because I'm blind to their frindley-ness, are welcome.
i'd feel like a r..., yikes, crikey, i am affronted, way too much, grr, pompous old git, whiz-bang super-d..., especially devast..., evensnog, schopfling, nibling and 36 more...
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Buenos Aires
Highlights from a travelogue.
estenopeica, anarcho-feminist, frequentamente, satisfecha, puxa, solips, delightful, dulce, gotten, conspicuously, gratis, cinta and 47 more...
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please don't.
words or phrases i use too often or wished i never used at all.
Tweets
Looking for tweets for gotten.
alexz Gotten? they complain about 'gotten'? Google's got gotten goin back to 1492 's library of congress, but it really wan't 'America' as in the USA so that date is suspect. I got Gotten being used by the house of lords http://goo.gl/XuEo2 Jan 9, 2013
chained_bear Oh man. This brings back some memories. Frindley, I got crap marks on an English paper in Australia for using "gotten," which my teacher (who later became a pretty good friend!) insisted was completely ungrammatical and did not exist as a legitimate word. She had genuinely never heard it. I was stunned, because it's very common in the United States, and I'd seen it in all kinds of (even formal) writing.
I'm so glad this really is a cultural difference and I didn't just dream the whole episode. Oct 2, 2008
yarb Re: UK - the perfect participle used in the UK is simply got. E.g. "We had just got there when...", "I had just got up when..."
Gotten still sounds odd to my ear but I do like it. Oct 2, 2008
frindley Australians are taught to regard this as "wrong" or "ungrammatical" or as an informal/slangy US usage. As a result relatively few realise that (a) it is acceptable and normal in the US and that (b) it is actually very old. ’Tis ironic given that the word parallels with a whole lot of other words that we do use, such as "driven" and "written", not to mention "shown".
I'm quite fond of "gotten", but to give the Antipodean response to jennarenn's question, Aussies would most likely eschew the get verb altogether (another legacy of the education system) and say:
"We had just arrived when..."
Mar 30, 2008
uselessness I'm guessing they'd probably go with arrived or shown up...? Apr 20, 2007
jennarenn What would they say in the UK?
"We had just gotten there when...." Apr 19, 2007
uselessness That is strange. I've never gotten why that is. Apr 19, 2007
artistx It is strange how this is used in the US but in the UK it is archaic . Apr 19, 2007