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Come on, cat.
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: general vicinity of Philadelphia area
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"The car needs washed."
Seems to be a central PA thing.
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Draco dormiens nunquam titillandus
Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: Melbourne, Vic
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It's also a fairly standard construction in Scottish English.
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I hear them call the tide
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Perpetual Chaos
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bollocks
![]() as for aks/ask ... you'd be a marked target if you said ask in some areas of Detroit -it's not just an ignorant mispronunciation -it's dialect.
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Person who doesn't update the user title
Join Date: Jul 2002
Location: Southern California
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I heard this sort of locution in the Navy all the time. Everywhere the Navy was.
I chalk it up to "elliptical construction."
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