Archaic in England, but common in the U.S. It has not, however, driven out the participle got. Examples of both are given.
1769. Any person who has got a good House and Farm.—Advt., Boston Evening Post, Oct. 2.
1790. The superfluous use of the word got (A man has got a horse) is commented on in the American Mercury: see Gazette of the U.S., Phila., Aug. 21.
1797. The fire was got under without further injury.—Id., Jan. 23.
1816. “What have you got?” “Got home, and got a glorious peace.”—Boston Messenger, May 2: from the Virginia Patriot.
1843. This is no musical forest, no Hindoo hunter’s hut, got up for effect at the amphitheatre.—Cornelius Mathews, ‘Writings,’ p. 217.
1796. You would have stood a chance to have gotten eighty pieces of silver for it.—Gazette of the U.S., Phila., July 5.
1799. Robert, said my friend, I see you have once more gotten on your hobby horse.—The Aurora, Phila., Nov. 30.
1813. When he had gotten opposite the house.—Mass. Spy, March 17.
1817. She perceived [the bear] had already gotten the heifer upon the ground.—Id., Nov. 12.
1818. As the weather has been dry, hay has been gotten early, and without being wet.—Id., Oct. 14.
182[?]. He hastened to appear at the place of recitation; but alas! the lesson was not gotten.—Id., Aug. 5: from the Essex Register.
1842. If it had been a man, not a penny would he have gotten from me; (or got; both are good grammar).—Knick. Mag., xix. 50 (Jan.).
1842. The lady and the midshipman had gotten comfortably fixed in the boarding-house.—Phila. Spirit of the Times, April 19.
1842. The Sun and [the] Herald have both gotten out likenesses of him.—Id., June 18.
1842. The Arena is gotten very naughty.—Id., June 18.
1842. Mr. Arnold [of Tennessee] said, as an attempt was making to kick the bill out of the House before it had fairly gotten into the House, he hoped the House would escuse him for saying a few words in defence of the general principles of the bill.—House of Repr., Aug.: Cong. Globe, p. 775, App.
1853. They have gotten up in Boston the greatest “Yankee notion” of a steamer that we ever heard of.—Daily Morning Herald, St Louis, Feb. 4.
1856. What does he want, and how is he to be gotten rid of?—Knick. Mag., xlvii. 44 (Jan.).
1856. Thick, double-milled ‘gauntlets,’ reaching to the elbows, (gotten at STEWART’S for twelve shillings, and cheap at five dollars).—Id., xlvii. 428 (April).
1868. Full of the idea, I ran into the town, crossed the Licking, and asked the first person I met if he thought a singing-school could be gotten up in Newport.—Sol. Smith’s ‘Autobiography,’ p. 24.
1909. We may assume that 2,000 words may be gotten through in a ten-minutes’ session by the ordinary reader.—N.Y. Evening Post, March 18.
