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Kooyeen  +  411775 Thu, 30 Aug 07 07:48 PM
Hi,
I just heard "he gots"... I also took a look on the net with Google, it seems common. Is that part of some dialect or not? It seems it's used in the UK too. Have you ever heard it? If so, how did you hear it used?
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Feebs11  +  411796 Thu, 30 Aug 07 08:36 PM
Can you give more of the sentence in which it appeared? It is not a common usage here and it may relate to a dialect use.
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Vorpar  +  411813 Thu, 30 Aug 07 09:09 PM

It's a slangy way to say "he has". Not grammatically correct.

Used as "he has", possibly: "He gots the 40s."
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Feathers  +  411821 Thu, 30 Aug 07 09:44 PM
It seems to me all the examples I found indicate that it's one of the characteristics of Ebonics.  It's just my feeling, though...
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