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Gotten is a perfectly ordinary word in Scottish and Northern Isles English. And -ize is perfectly acceptable to many British English spell checkers. Unfortuna
by kwhitefoot 8y ago
Gotten is a perfectly ordinary word in Scottish and Northern Isles English.
And -ize is perfectly acceptable to many British English spell checkers. Unfortunately it seems impossible to find one that will reject -ise spellings when the -ize one is the more etymologically 'correct'.
For instance, I am using Firefox with a British English checker and it, correctly, allows "advertise" but not "advertize"; however, it also allows both "mythologize" and "mythologise" when only the first would be accepted in the Oxford tradition.
I'll be sticking with the advice in Fowler's Modern English Usage, Second Edition.
- bovine3dom 8y agoYou just need to find en-GB-oxendict [1]. Oxford spelling is used quite heavily in academia so it ought to be easy to burglarise ;) [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxford_spelling https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxford_spelling
- kwhitefoot 8y agoShouldn't that be burglarize? Except of course that in British English it would just be burgle.
- bovine3dom 8y agoYeah - it was a joke :)
- NeedMoreTea 8y agoEveryone seems to want the 50 year old Fowler's. :)
- dboreham 8y agoHmm...somewhere in Scotland other than where I grew up. For me gotten only existed in US movies, and "I'll gotten gains".