“Take is inflected “take/took/taken.” The form *"tooken" is low dialect. It occasionally shows up in quoted speech — e.g.:
o “And how he absolutely hated ‘to get tooken [read ‘taken’] out of a ball game.'” Garret Mathews, “Ol’ Diz Would Have Struck Out in Broadcasting Today,” Evansville Courier & Press, 22 Jan. 1999, at B1 (quoting Dizzy Dean).
o “Testimony showed Sokolowski told another man he ‘had tooken [read ‘taken’] care of’ Ellwood.” “Sentence Upheld in Grisly Murder,” News & Record (Greensboro), 4 Dec. 1999, at B6C.
Language-Change Index — *"tooken": Stage 1.
*Invariably inferior form.
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