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Tue Apr-06-10 08:10 PM
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| Co-worker who is not from this part of the country: "Have Boughten? It's Have Bought!" |
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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?
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