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Appalachian dialect
by matltc 26d ago
Appalachian dialect
- acj 26d agoI hear this in the upper midwest occasionally, too
- richiebful1 25d agoI 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 25d agoThank 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.