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🇬🇧 🇺🇸 **How the use of a word in the Guardian has gotten some readers upset**

_Getting back to “gotten”, which has been described by the linguist David Crystal in his Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English Language as “probably the most distinctive of all the [American English/British English] grammatical differences”._

🔗 theguardian.com/commentisfree/.

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