
I will give you ill-gotten, but that is IT!!

NE wrote:
I have got to tell you that I've got no patience for the British (and friends) impatience with the past participle gotten. I have gotten sick before. So mote it be."Gotten! GOTTEN!!! Aaaaargggh!!!!! No such word!

The latter half is The Man from Snowy River.....(already a movie)!. Dunno the first bit though.....

It was mainly the older generation but!

Stephen's clue was
It was also the time of reeves. It was the time of pardoners, It was the time of Millers it was the time of the Wife of Bath. Those should probably have been reversed Stephen, so the Canterbury Tales went first.
I am too tired to think of another at the moment....and you need the practise!!

It was endemic in NSW when I lived there in the 80's....

Canterbury Tales....the problem here is that the last word of the first title HAS to be the first word of the last title or it just doesn't work......

No vistas from my place either Kitty.....makes it easier to get lost in a book!!;-)

Don't mourn lost youth....celebrate the wisewoman who pushed it aside!

1. War of the Worlds/World According to Garp
2. I dunno....someone else?