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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I say "The car needs washed."  Which I know should have a verb somewhere in there, but yes, that's still the phrase that comes naturally to me.  DH uses "up" instead of "away" in reference to cleaning.  As in, "Larla, put up your toys when you are done playing."  It's away.  Larla, put your toys away.  [/quote]

All the others to me seem like regional dialect differences, and I'm sure this one probably is, too, but leaving out the "to be" before washed is like fingernails on a blackboard (chalkboard?) to me.  How about trying "the car needs washing?"

The up versus away is still grammatically correct. [b]The washed thing is not[/b]. [/quote]

It is entirely correct regional speech.

http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=3422[/quote]

You'll hear it in the North Midland region, but it is nonstandard usage. So, no, not grammatically correct.

http://www.quickanddirtytips.com/education/grammar/needs-washed[/quote]

"Standard usage" and "grammatically correct" are not synonyms, and "nonstandard usage" and "grammatically correct" are not antonyms.[/quote]

Why are you arguing this?  It is not grammatically correct, and it is not standard usage. Grammar Girl calls it "not normal." Maybe you like that better?  It's dialect.

The Yale Grammatical Diversity Project has some interesting info on it, including a survey map of "Most baby likes cuddled."

http://microsyntax.sites.yale.edu/needs-washed[/quote]

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