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Thread #153065   Message #3582651
Posted By: Q (Frank Staplin)
08-Dec-13 - 02:04 PM
Thread Name: BS: Pedants be damned
Subject: RE: BS: Pedants be damned
The usage (punter) in England does not extend to North America as yet.
I read a lot of fiction, a good deal of it UK, so I am aware of its usage there.

Got, gotten; The OED has the usages to which you object. They seem to have become rare in the UK, but persist in North America. This was brought up in another thread some time ago.