According to Bryan Gardner's *Dictionary of Modern American Usage*, the past
participle 'gotten' predominates in AmE, whereas 'got' is used in BrE.
Amanda Dill
Co-Vice President, Literati
East Central University Ada, OK


On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 8:19 AM, Ciervo, Frank <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

>  Isn’t this a good example of very poor usage? Unless my memory is very
> bad, it would have been cause for points off in my freshmen composition
> class. A sad commentary on the state of news writing in 2009
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> But Farley noted that bill sponsor Assemblyman Peter Abbate Jr., D-Brooklyn
> *, hasn’t yet gotten* a Democrat to introduce the bill in the Senate. The
> Democrats won control of the Senate this year.
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