PS: I meant to add that if you had had my English teacher and had written to word "gotten" in any essay, you would have had a sore backside for a week! He was always adamant that that disgusting Americanism was taboo and that there was ALWAYS a much more suitable ENGLISH verb to use. That fixation has remained with me for the past decades and it still rankles slightly whenever I see it. Funny that!
You would have thought that I should have gotten used to it after all this time...
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A bit hard to read with these old eyes, even with the help of Cntrl/shift/+ (but managed it in the end).
I just got this one which I think deserves a wider audience. Still a little too early to wish you a Merry Christmas
PS: I meant to add that if you had had my English teacher and had written to word "gotten" in any essay, you would have had a sore backside for a week! He was always adamant that that disgusting Americanism was taboo and that there was ALWAYS a much more suitable ENGLISH verb to use. That fixation has remained with me for the past decades and it still rankles slightly whenever I see it. Funny that!
You would have thought that I should have gotten used to it after all this time...
Reevers, if you click on the pic, it increases like a JPEG.
Yes, I agree with the term 'gotten', but it was in the whole piece, so I couldn't edit it out!
Not too early for Crimbo Wishes either, and of course, thank you, our felicitations to you and the Reevers over there!
Just love the link, Reevers! Marvellous!
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