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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The towels "need washed" or the baby's diaper "needs changed."  I understand this is a regionalism but it sounds so uneducated.[/quote]

It's a PA thing (central and western, specifically). I agree that it's annoying, though I recently learned that particular construction is based on German grammar rules.  Given the influence of German immigrants on PA, that's not surprising.  [/quote]

Generations later it’s not really an excuse for people who can’t speak German.[/quote]

Absolutely.  I just think it's interesting where it came from since I just assumed it was some sort of hillbilly/Pennsyltucky thing. [/quote]

It's very specific to that region then. My grandmother was a German speaker in the midwest. She never said "needs washed."[/quote]
I grew up in eastern Wisconsin, which is incredibly German, and I associate "this needs washed"/"this needs changed" with Pennsylvania. I don't hear it much when I'm in WI. [/quote]

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