Which is more correct use of the words? And what sounds better to a native English speaking person?
The context is setting the locale in a web application.
EDIT: The information is retrieved from the browsers API which gets the information from the operating system. So technically it should be Get in my opinion but I was thinking from an end user perspective.
Fetch and get are both transitive verbs. They require an object noun phrase.
Without the object, they're ungrammatical.
They don't mean the same thing, either. Fetch has a very specific meaning:
Get, on the other hand, has many different meanings, though only the one meaning 'come to have' (or 'cause to have') is involved here.
The OQ doesn't provide sufficient context for an answer -- just for starts, what is to be fetched or gotten, for what purpose, from where, and by what means? -- but I would suggest that a complete sentence is more informative than a verb phrase with an imaginary object. It is never wise to believe that your readers have exactly the same imagination you do.
And I wouldn't recommend either fetch or get, either. One is rare and dialectal, the other is overly common and multiply ambiguous; and they're both ungrammatical without objects.
Depends. I would use fetch because it sounds nicer, but you could also base it on what it exactly is called you are doing.
For example, get would be logical if you were dealing with a GET request.
And who do you mean by native? Anyone? I'm not a native myself but depending on who from where you ask, you might get different answers.
