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- Use of the word boughten. : r linguistics - Reddit
Does anyone here use "boughten" for the past participle of "buy"? This is a common word in the Midwestern United States There is a thread discussing past tense and past participles becoming the same, however the is a case of the opposite The past tense and past participle of "buy" are both traditionally "bought"
- Boughten? : r grammar - Reddit
The Northern form boughten (as in store boughten) features the participial ending -en, added to bought, the participial form, probably by analogy with more common participial adjectives such as frozen Another development, analogous to homemade, is evident in bought-made, cited in DARE from a Texas informant
- The word, boughten : r mildlyinfuriating - Reddit
The word, "boughten" This word mildly infuriates me Bought is already past tense I don't care that it is technically also correct I don't care whether boughten or bought came first It feels like the speaker is adding a suffix like -issimo to indicate more
- Do any other native English speakers say boughten? - Reddit
But it wasn't parallel to "gotten" It was an adjective, meaning store-bought: "a boughten cake", as opposed to a home-made one (You can't say "a gotten cake" in any English dialect as far as I know ) We used "bought" for the past participle of "buy" in verb constructions I think "boughten" owes something to adjectives like golden, wooden, oaken
- Is it ever necessary to say boughten as a verb? Past perfect . . . - Reddit
Boughten is an adjective meaning purchased rather than homemade according to Merriam Webster News to me, and I'd assume rather obscure? Interesting
- I shouldve boughten a gt pro hub instead of a GTS leather wheel . . .
I should've boughten a gt pro hub instead of a GTS leather wheel I spent my first day using my new GTS which replaced my 30$ 320mm d shaped eBay wheel
- Using an -en suffix at the end of a verb to turn it into a . . . - Reddit
To pile onto the anecdotal evidence, I'm from New England and using boughten or caughten in a few contexts feels and sounds very natural to me, but only really after a negation earlier in the sentence
- “Boughten” rugs and furniture : r littlehouseonprairie - Reddit
“Boughten” rugs and furniture I am 33 years old and watched this show since I was at least 8-9 I have seen every episode at least 50 times, no exaggeration I’m once again rewatching “country girls” as I’m cleaning and just now realized that when Nellie describes things as being “boughten” it’s not ike a brand or something
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