Exactly. It's like scraping fingernails down a blackboard.
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But that's precisely the point. English is a constantly evolving language, without Shakespeare's blatant disregard for 'English' as it was then, we wouldn't have the English we enjoy now.
English is constantly evolving and changing - that is it's beauty and it's strength.
Dave
In my book, "gotten" is ok as an adjective - as in "ill-gotten gains" - but
*not* as a verb - as in "I have gotten a new car".It's the latter - Americanized(!) - usage to which we object.
Yes but that's different. At least he was British....
But that evolution doesn't usually include two gratuitous apostrophes!
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