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use of "gotten"

"Gotten" is the past participle of "get" but is mostly used in American English - can it ever be correct?

Re: use of "gotten"

I think it's so common in American English, we would be hard pushed to call it grammatically incorrect. I have never seen an American use it in a formal document though. It is definitely not acceptable in British English.