On a different note, why the increase in the UK using “gotten”? Please stop.
It’s clearly down to the increase in visible moustache-twirling villains in the news, saying stuff like “and I would have gotten away with it if it weren’t for those meddling kids.”
Or something.
Personally, I’m also annoyed at the increased use of “needs done”, which feels like it’s missing half a sentence. But hey, languages are big - and can fit a lot of different usage.
needs done
Could you use it in a sentence, or is that literally the sentence?
“Can you clean the toilet? It needs done.” - like this, or?
My brother-in-law says the dishes “need washed” and I can’t tell you how badly that grates on me.
sounds like you’ve done got gotten
languages change gramps, get with the times.
I have heard that US English is much closer to the English of the 1600s, whereas ours evolved under the influence of French, and I guess some things dropped out of common usage. Gotten being one of them, posssibly until the invention of YouTube sped up globalisation.
Oh that’s interesting. Because we all think of the British accent as code for colonial period speech on TV shows.
