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Sir,-In the Webster’s Dictionary era into which some of us were born and brought up, only the illiterate said Monday and again. The word "got" crops up surprisingly, where one would never expect it. Even Professor Joad has caught it . .. or never snapped out of it. Painful hiatus! Four of my dictionaries make no mention of our little pet word. (Yes, I have discovered it snuggled in with get and gotten.) But Collins’ has succumbed to it. No doubt someone will presently discover that "got" is "a fine old English gentleman."
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 11, Issue 268, 11 August 1944, Page 7
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95PRONUNCIATION New Zealand Listener, Volume 11, Issue 268, 11 August 1944, Page 7
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