Needs specimen

[Bethany K. Dumas]

On Thu, 9 Mar 2000, Roger Shuy wrote:
>After 40 years as a university professor, it is disheartening to learn
>that my Ohio origin dialect, in which "needs washed" etc. was very common,
>is now assigned to "lower class." Something needs corrected here I fear.
>Roger Shuy

LOL! Thank you, Roger. My colleague, Jeff Mellor, a Professor of Modern
Foreign Languages & Literatures at Tennessee (Ph.D., U of Chicago) will
agree with you!

Bethany