As LowestoftBoy says, old English, and so it's not one of my peeves

Just reminded me of the Yorkshire Dialect story
Teacher - What's wrong with this sentence? 'He's putten the bread on the table.'
Pupil - He's putten putten and he should have putten put.

Posted By: camcan on November 29th 2023 at 19:14:44

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people that use the term "gotten" (General Chat) - Tombs, Nov 29, 18:12:29
- Accept except (n/m) (General Chat) - APB, Nov 29, 19:51:38
- Haterz Gotten Hated (n/m) (General Chat) - usacanary, Nov 29, 19:26:42
  - Ill gotten gains (n/m) (General Chat) - Jumbo1, Nov 29, 19:36:56
    - people that say "their" instead of "there" (General Chat) - Tombs, Nov 29, 19:51:30
      - I’ll tell you what boils my piss. (General Chat) - Augustus Pablo, Nov 29, 20:56:35
      - This..... (General Chat) - usacanary, Nov 29, 19:56:09
- Oh.... (General Chat) - usacanary, Nov 29, 19:26:16
- No…people who use ‘of’ instead of ‘have’ grrrrrrr (n/m) (General Chat) - BINMEN8R, Nov 29, 19:17:35
  - Pacific instead of specific (General Chat) - Jumbo1, Nov 29, 19:22:23
    - Exasperate instead of exacerbate (n/m) (General Chat) - jamesward, Nov 29, 19:27:27
      - Affect instead of effect (General Chat) - Jumbo1, Nov 29, 19:38:32
        
        Pronouncing dissect as in die, not Diss. (n/m) (General Chat) - norwaay, Nov 29, 19:46:38
        
        I have never heard anyone say diss (General Chat) - jamesward, Nov 29, 20:15:02
        
        It's evolved. Badly. (n/m) (General Chat) - norwaay, Nov 29, 21:09:17
        
        Surely, if you can evolve and revolve, you can also just volve? (General Chat) - APB, Nov 29, 21:17:47
- As LowestoftBoy says, old English, and so it's not one of my peeves (General Chat) - camcan, Nov 29, 19:14:44
- I heard it Radio Norfolk the other day (General Chat) - shoddy, Nov 29, 19:11:10
- Why, if it wasn’t for you pesky kids I’d have gotten away with it (General Chat) - Jumbo1, Nov 29, 19:10:45
- 'Gotten' is an old english word (General Chat) - LowestoftBoy, Nov 29, 18:57:01
- As bad as " can I get" when ordering some thing (General Chat) - CB41, Nov 29, 18:45:42
- i've noticed more people saying "sh" with word begining with s (General Chat) - Chris Peacock, Nov 29, 18:14:25
  - tonights "gotten" swine was an anglian news reporter (General Chat) - Tombs, Nov 29, 18:17:10
    - could be worse (General Chat) - Chris Peacock, Nov 29, 18:48:39
      - ditto: compewder, modersickle, etc (General Chat) - Tombs, Nov 29, 19:33:10

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