Co-worker who is not from this part of the country: "Have Boughten? It's Have Bought!"

[Odin2005]

The co-worker today pointed out a funny quirk of the dialect here in the Upper Midwest. We tend to tack on an "-en" on many Past Participles of irregular verbs in a false analogy with past participles like "gotten" and "fallen"

"I've boughten the groceries"
"I've caughten the ball"
"I've taughten Math for 20 years"

The thing tying all these non-standard forms together is apparently being a strong irregular verb with a past tense form with "aht/awt" in it, thus the false analogy with "get/got/gotten".


What are some weird grammatical quirks in your local speech?

[Jamastiene]

1. I said wastage when talking to someone the other day.

This person tends to be pretty smart and usually bests me in debates. They said wastage was not a word. So, I broke my Webster's Unabridged out and w00t! there it was.

I had just gotten out of bed and do not know why I used that form of the word. The only thing I can think of is that I was half asleep at the time.

Edited: Typo

[MiddleFingerMom]

3. Waistage:

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The direct correlation between fathoodnessosity and getting older.
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That's MY word, but everybody feel free to use it.
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I'm feeling magmanimouse this morning.
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Magmanimouse: Grounds for a lawsuit against the company that manufactured your LavaLamp
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[Radical Activist]

2. Come with?

Maybe its not regional but it annoys the fuck out of me. It makes people sound like ignorant, illiterate assholes.

[Roon]

4. I have a buddy who says brang instead of brought

It makes my skin crawl.

[Odin2005]

5. ACK! I say "bring/brang/brung, too!

:rofl:

[nuxvomica]

6. "drug" for "dragged" and "seen" for "saw"

As in "I didn't want to see that chick flick but my wife drug me to it. So I seen it and it wasn't so bad."