My first husband was Norwegian. He was taught enough British-style English in school to launch himself into becoming truly fluent, starting with Mad magazine and Gibbon's stamp catalogue and evolving through every imaginable form of pop culture -- especially British football on television and in newspapers -- to a PhD in political philosophy at the University of Toronto. His spoken English was mid-Atlantic, with mixed British-American-Canadian vocabulary and Norwegian articulation. He was equally fluent in French, and his Swedish and German were only marginally less perfect.

As for "gotten" -- how else can you be misbegotten, or have ill-gotten gains? Variant dialectical form strikes again!