Wednesday, November 29, 2017

Midwest dialectic item.

I've noticed that I put a lot of one-syllable past participles into forms with an "-en" on the end, like "boughten" or "caughten" (which I'm assuming morphologically levels them to be like "gotten"?).

The other month, I was talking with a (college-age) (Mexican-American) guy, who was born and raised in Chicago.

He said, "I should have broughten a phone charger."

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