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regional variations
Forgive me if I have got this around my neck, but I thought we had previously *gotten around to discussing gotten rather than got. "I have got" and thus "I've got ~" would both be unremarkable Standard English in the UK, I think. What sounds slightly less usual, though a simple little difference, is the typical USnificationalism of "I have gotten ~"
BTW, I like the sound of got - it's hard and forceful and very expressive.
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Ohhhh...okay...I didn't really recall all the ins and outs of the discussion...I recall discussing the example of "I've got a cold", and I also vaguely recall some discussion of "gotten" and the apparent awkwardness of this to some people. I guess I sort of lumped "got" and "gotten" together...not an unreasonable mix-up! 
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"got" is useful in speech, but it is a word that I try to use sparingly in written work. But I am not absolutely certain why. I suppose it sounds "common" - something that was nathema to my family as I grew up. We have the English class-system in full cry, here!  
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the English class-system in full cryYou may have got something here, Rhuby! I shall go home and read my Lawrence Does the sound of this word mean anything or have particular connotations for others in different parts of the world?
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Every one seems to forget the biggest difference in the use of got/gotten -- to USrs, it's "gaht"; to others it's "gawtt" (my best approximation of the Brit short 'o' sound). And of course, the great example of 'I've got', "I've got a little list" (in which 'got' may have been chosen for musical purposes). If it was good enough for G&S, it ought to be good enough for an AWADer.
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