boughten bread

[Beverly Flanigan]

I'm glad to know the word is still alive and well--you're a lot younger
than I am!

At 11:08 AM 12/9/2003 -0500, you wrote:
>On Sun, 7 Dec 2003, Beverly Flanigan wrote:
>
> > I too had a teacher who taught us how to analyze Latin-based words (a
> > useful tool I wish my grad students had), do library research and write
> > decent papers (another skill often lacking), and appreciate good
> > literature.  But when she tore down a sign at a bake sale during a
> > basketball game because it said "Boughten Cookies," she shamed us and our
> > origins.  It was years later, of course, that I learned 'boughten' is a
> > common Northern participial adjective and felt vindicated.
>
>Michigander that I am, I never even knew boughten was considered regional
>until I became a lexicographer. It had never even crossed my mind that it
>might be a regionalism. Growing up, there was homemade bread, and there
>was boughten bread, and that was that.