This is worth a view:
I'm feeling a lot better this Monday after a weekend of recuperation. Here's what I had to say earlier this month when the TV crew from #Unspun came to my office. They asked me what was the most trouble I'd even gotten into. pic.twitter.com/uHiHZwsCwD
— Jamie Stone MP (@Jamie4North) March 26, 2018
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Did Jamie really say ‘gotten’. Unbelievable! What are we coming to?
Andrew, I don’t know about ‘gotten’ but I am cautious about the gut reaction of some English people to condemn Americanisms. All too often they turn out to be current English from the seventeenth or eighteenth centuries that have persisted in America, and sometimes Scotland and Ireland, but were tidied away from cultivated English English by Victorians.
The video clip describes his boyhood encounter with a World War II bomb and reminds us that there are still some of these nasties out there in our environment. Around 1970 a pair of boys found a bomb and brought it in a barrow into Upminster police station. About the same time a recent widow found an artillery shell in her husband’s garden shed and brought it on a bus to Harold Hill police station. Both stories ended happily but still give me a frisson of horror. Less happily, around 1960, in my home county of Fermanagh, intensively used for army training in the war, the son of a family picnicking on an uninhabited island in the lough, found a hand grenade and was killed.