I'm a mid-twenties Londoner and I'll fairly naturally say 'gotten' as the past participle instead of 'got', which is due to exposure to American media and also hypercorrection, so that's something to bear in mind. My mum will pick me up on it, so it definitely sounds strange to at least one member of the older generation, but it's really not a hard-and-fast rule.
Here's the British Council explaining have got. For teenagers, but still. :D The rule is pretty straightforward: anything that you possess, either abstract or concrete, and some appointments and things like that, can use 'have got'. It's almost always contracted, definitely not used in formal written language, and pretty irritating to try to remove from your speech. *was supposed to teach American English one time*
Maths isn't plural. (E.g., 'maths is my favourite subject'.)
Also to note, 'British' is not a particularly useful descriptor of the language. I know you;re just going for broad ideas, hence the usage of American which is also a very wide category, buuuuuut Scottish/Welsh/Irish English are such different beasts from English English in some respect, and there's a bit of a nasty history of erasure of those forms of English from discussions of British English, that it might be a good idea to specify that you're looking for English English?
Aaaand there's loads of other stuff I'm sure, but I'm going out for dinner just now. I will see if I can think of anything else helpful!
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Date: 1/14/13 04:19 pm (UTC)Here's the British Council explaining have got. For teenagers, but still. :D The rule is pretty straightforward: anything that you possess, either abstract or concrete, and some appointments and things like that, can use 'have got'. It's almost always contracted, definitely not used in formal written language, and pretty irritating to try to remove from your speech. *was supposed to teach American English one time*
Maths isn't plural. (E.g., 'maths is my favourite subject'.)
Also to note, 'British' is not a particularly useful descriptor of the language. I know you;re just going for broad ideas, hence the usage of American which is also a very wide category, buuuuuut Scottish/Welsh/Irish English are such different beasts from English English in some respect, and there's a bit of a nasty history of erasure of those forms of English from discussions of British English, that it might be a good idea to specify that you're looking for English English?
Aaaand there's loads of other stuff I'm sure, but I'm going out for dinner just now. I will see if I can think of anything else helpful!