Boughten bread

[FRITZ JUENGLING]

I have been interested in this form for a long time. I think this form is much more common than many people realize.  I often hear people, particularly students, say 'boughten' and  I make a mental note. Several days later I'll ask the student or entire class whether they have heard it.  I find it most curious when someone who said 'boughten' two days earlier claims never to have heard it (Maybe they just don't listen to what they say).  I also periodically hear something like this "I have boughten a new cd player."
fritz

>>> pmcgraw at LINFIELD.EDU 12/10/03 09:02AM >>>
I never heard "boughten" alone, but "store-bought" has always been used in
our family to designate something not homemade.  I dimly remember starting
out with "store-boughten" way back in my childhood in S. California and/or
Oregon (late 40s-early 50s), and switching to "store-bought" in response to
a parental correction.

Peter Mc.

--On Wednesday, December 10, 2003 10:45 AM -0500 "James A. Landau"
<JJJRLandau at AOL.COM> wrote:

> OED has "store-bought" with a suspiciously late first citation of 1952
> (John Steinbeck, _East of Eden_), and a variation not so far mentioned in
> ADS_L, "store-boughten" with an 1883 first citation.



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