Martin R. Green wrote:

>we have just gotten (God, I hate that word) ....

Move to Britain then - we never use it. :-)

It's included in the MSWorks 'American English' spelling checker, but not in
the 'British English' one. That recommends replacing it with 'rotten' !!

If you dislike it, why not just say "become"? Same number of syllables and
letters, and it's more general too.


Andy.