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mindmetoo · Joined: 02 Feb 2004

I was watching TV and there was a clip with Judge Judy. She was scolding a defendant because he used the word "boughten".

"I have boughten it in the past from them..."

"Boughten is NOT a word!"

"Sorry, I have bought it in the past."

Boughten is not a word? It's not a legal past participle of buy?

http://www.answers.com/topic/boughten

I guess "I have bought" works too but I tend to use boughten. I never realized it was a regional thing. Anyway, Judge Judy doesn't know everything. What a loud mouth.

Kimchieluver · Joined: 02 Mar 2005

I hate Judge Judy.

huffdaddy · Joined: 25 Nov 2005

JeJuJitsu · Joined: 11 Sep 2005 Location: McDonald's

Never used or heard of "boughten" in my life. I have bought it in the past.

Dictionary.com, which uses Webster's:

�adjective Northern and North Midland U.S. Nonstandard.

Sleepy in Seoul · Posted: Thu Feb 22, 2007 6:45 am Post subject:

To the OP. You're using the television as your teacher? Someone should have taughten you not to do that.

ontheway · Posted: Thu Feb 22, 2007 7:42 am Post subject:

This time Judge Judy is correct.

Roch · Joined: 24 Apr 2003 Location: Seoul

Woland · Joined: 10 May 2006 Location: Seoul

"Memories, they can't be boughten;
they can't be won at carnivals for free.
It took me years to get those souvenirs
and I don't know how they slipped away from me.

-- John Prine, Souvenirs

One of the loveliest songs you'll ever hear. If John Prine using it doesn't legitimize a word, I don't know who can.

BigBuds · Joined: 15 Sep 2005 Location: Changwon

yingwenlaoshi · Joined: 12 Feb 2007 Location: ... location, location!

Learn something new everyday. Good night.

Cochise · Joined: 19 Feb 2007 Location: Namyangju

Another word that is not a word: conversate.

Ignorant wretches everywhere, hear my call. If you are in a discussion, you are conversing, NOT conversating.

I met a Scottish guy last year who was over here teaching English. Put aside that it was only with great difficulty that I could make out every third word the man said (the mind boggles at what his young Korean pupils must have sounded like). He thought that the past tense of "treat" was "trett." He had only recently learned his error, that the word he was looking for was "treated", and was astonished that I was not astonished upon hearing that "trett" was incorrect.

Also, "irregardless" is not a word. It's just "regardless."[/i]

Ya-ta Boy · Joined: 16 Jan 2003 Location: Established in 1994

Wow! Judge Judy and John Prine--two of my heroes in one thread.

Hello In There
�John Prine

We had an apartment in the city,
Me and Loretta liked living there.
Well, it'd been years since the kids had grown,
A life of their own left us alone.
John and Linda live in Omaha,
And Joe is somewhere on the road.
We lost Davy in the Korean war,
And I still don't know what for, don't matter anymore.

And then there is this song, which I've used in class with success:

It's A Big Old Goofy World
�John Prine

Up in the morning
Work like a dogIs better than sitting
Like a bump on a log
Mind all your manners
Be quiet as a mouse
Some day you'll own a home
That's as big as a house

I know a fella
He eats like a horse
Knocks his old balls
Round the old golf course
You oughta see his wife
She's a cute little dish
She smokes like a chimney
And drinks like a fish
There's a big old goofy man
Dancing with a big old goofy girl
Ooh baby
It's a big old goofy world

Now Elvis had a woman
With a head like a rock
I wished I had a woman
That made my knees knock
She'd sing like an angel
And eat like a bird
And if I wrote a song
She'd know ever single word

Kiss a little baby
Give the world a smile
If you take an inch
Give 'em back a mile
Cause if you lie like a rug
And you don't give a damn
You're never gonna be
As happy as a clam
So I'm sitting in a hotel
Trying to write a song
My head is just as empty
As the day is long
Why it's clear as a bell
I should have gone to school
I'd be wise as an owl
Stead of stubborn as a mule.

ChuckECheese · Joined: 20 Jul 2006

Broughten? Ridiculocious! Laughing

Woland · Joined: 10 May 2006 Location: Seoul

Ya-ta Boy · Joined: 16 Jan 2003 Location: Established in 1994

You should also try "Illegal Smile" Very Happy

Bowl of oatmeal tried to stare me down... and won
And it was twelve o'clock before I realized
That I was havin' ... no fun

Chorus:
But fortunately I have the key to escape reality
And you may see me tonight with an illegal smile
It don't cost very much, but it lasts a long while

Or perhaps "Your Flag Decal Won't Get You into Heaven Anymore" is more your style:

Chorus:
But your flag decal won't get you
Into Heaven any more.
They're already overcrowded
From your dirty little war.
Now Jesus don't like killin'
No matter what the reason's for,
And your flag decal won't get you
Into Heaven any more.

On the other hand, there is "Onomatopoeia"

Hold it! Stop it! No! No! No! No!
Bang! went the pistol.
Crash! went the window.
Ouch! went the son of a gun.
Onomatopoeia
I don't wanna see ya
Speaking in a foreign tongue.

Or the ever popular "Blow Up Your TV"
She was a level-headed dancer on the road to alcohol
And I was just a soldier on my way to Montreal
Well she pressed her chest against me
About the time the juke box broke
Yeah, she gave me a peck on the back of the neck
And these are the words she spoke

Chorus:
Blow up your TV throw away your paper
Go to the country, build you a home
Plant a little garden, eat a lot of peaches
Try an find Jesus on your own