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"To me, to go extinct (the one which seems to me, however mistakenly on my part, to be the Britishism) "
Somehow I associate it more with Australian usage, I suppose because of hearing my Aussie ex-husband refer to something or someone as having "gone missing". I also heard people in Australia say someone "went walkabout", specifically a pet that had wandered off.
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"gone missing"
That's the example I was trying to think of. I've heard it from UKns.
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I thought it started with the Young Man from Kent.
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"gone missing"Yep, that's the one I was thinking of, too. Which totally invalidates your point of intention, Mr. F. 
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totally invalidates your point of intention
A) The usage was cited as evidence of it as a British usage.
2) I never intended to claim the go/become difference indicated a hard and fast rule, merely a tendency.
Þ) Someone who has gone missing may well have done so intentionally; certainly moreso than something that has turned up missing.
Thank you very much Ms. S.
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Bless you for bringing this up, Rhuby!  My foremost linguistic peeve of late. In fact, I had prepared an alpha-post about this some time ago which I discussed with AnnaS, but was distracted and never posted it. What really made me hit the fan was when a publication of the calibre of Archaeology used it in an article late last year instead of the traditional became extinct/will become extinct. This after a few years of being inundated here in the media with gone missing, go missing, and went missing. There are several other like usages that have been similarly changed, but I'd have to find that old handwritten notesheet I made. So does anyone have any idea when this started, where, and why? It was suggested that it was Britishism, but this thread seems to refute that. The other suggestion is "media expedience"...saves words. But it has always sounded awkward to me. I don't like it, and never will. I think this appeared just a few years ago, 5-7 perhaps, but it seems to have taken hold.
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BTW, this started with gone, went, go missing in the broadcast media here, and then spread to the others. That usage coupled with extinct in Archaeology was the first time I ever heard it attached to extinct, which I found especially annoying...in fact, it made my paleontological bones curdle.
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Do bones have a curdl osity that varies according to the stimulus?
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foremost linguistic peeve
Ah, to be so free of people growing businesses, waitron units telling us to enjoy without having the common courtesy to tell us what it is we are supposed to enjoy, and people going nucular over things of much greater import.
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Thank you very much Ms. S.De nada, I guess. Who's Ms. S??
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