got

I prefer to use "start" or "beginning " rather than "get go" !!

Lucy Beaumont on The Traitors and Divorce - “I got no privacy”
quoted in The Times, yesterday.

Does anyone remember the Sunday Times era of Harold Evans, landing in the porch with a thud, the colour supplement with photographs by Bailey or Don McCullen,
the penetrating interviews, foreign affairs,
the Aral Sea, exposes and fashion, a veritable Cornucopia.
In my early twenties I was obliged to make sense of much of the main pages with the aid of a dictionary, some of the longer words ‘little used’ but applied efficiently, possibly with Roget’s Thesaurus to hand. Sunday was a day of information gathering and learning new words.
Now we have ‘got’ - ‘discrete’ used as an alternative form of discreet, spit infinitives abounding and scarcely intelligible tv presenters using glottal stops. Where will it end?
Our pedantic English teachers of the fifties and sixties taught us well, grammatical rules constantly drummed in to us, as times tables, instantly recountable, never forgotten

Where will it end? (SORES)

Heraclitus famously said, "The only constant in life is change.”, but there us another one; fear of change is also a constant.

As a teacher of English as a second language, I emphasised two points: that English is a very rich and flexible language; that languages in general change over time and that USAmerican English and UK English have diverged considerably since the seventeenth century.

And it is the only language I have come across where you can insert an expletive in the middle of a word as in 'absobloodylutely'.

CeliaVL

And it is the only language I have come across where you can insert an expletive in the middle of a word as in 'absobloodylutely'.

Is that true! We are a wonderful people!

An examples given above regarding alternatives to “got”:

Kate was married last week.
…...but not still married this week? 😉

I was told not to say pardon if I hadn’t heard what someone had said or to clarify, but instead, to say “sorry what was that? or “could you repeat that please?” -anything but pardon.

“Pardon me” or “I beg your pardon” was if you coughed/sneezed/yawned etc etc etc

CeliaVL absobloominlutely! As Eliza Doolittle sang in the musical My Fair Lady. 😃

Here is another one, from Nationwide -
“Your savings interest rate will be going down”

but to be fair, NW grammar spelling lexicon has always been limited - decreasing isn’t exactly a new word though…