Peter wrote: > As acceptable grammar in America, ["gotten" is] > likely to be written as well as spoken. Perhaps it comes down to formality and style. Although people often say "gotten easier"/"got easier", to me it seems poorly suited to documentation. Doing a quick search of some US help files, I found many occurrences of "get" and "getting" (e.g. "get Help", "Getting Started"), but none of "got" or "gotten". Regards, Craig ===== My e-mail address is: ===== craigh(at)attachesoftware(dot)com ===== (I may not see messages sent to my Yahoo address) Find local movie times and trailers on Yahoo! Movies. http://au.movies.yahoo.com ************************************************** To post a message to austechwriter, send the message to austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx To subscribe to austechwriter, send a message to austechwriter-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with "subscribe" in the Subject field. To unsubscribe, send a message to austechwriter-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe" in the Subject field. To search the austechwriter archives, go to www.freelists.org/archives/austechwriter To contact the list administrator, send a message to austechwriter-admins@xxxxxxxxxxxxx **************************************************