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Appalachian dialect

• acj 15d ago
  I hear this in the upper midwest occasionally, too
  • richiebful1 15d ago
    I love the Yale Grammatical Diversity Project for questions like this. Linguists figure this comes from Scots-Irish immigrants to the US https://ygdp.yale.edu/phenomena/needs-washed https://ygdp.yale.edu/phenomena/needs-washed
    • Melonai 15d ago
      Thank you so much for this link, this is extremely interesting and it really makes me wonder, consciously, I have never read this construction online before, but is this because I actually haven't seen it, or did I subconsciously write it off as an abbreviation or a typo. Maybe there is some analysis of how this construction gets used online, too, which might reveal some linguistic patterns of internet communities.