jibe/jive, needs washed

[Peter Richardson]

>
> Dang!  There's that McMinnville/Salem isogloss again!  The first time I
> heard this was when the topic came up on ads-l a number of years ago.
> (Admittedly, I can't guarantee I might not have heard it before and just
> not noticed, but it sounds so strange that I think I would have noticed.)
> Since then, whenever I've heard it, I've asked the person where he/she was
> from (if I could do so at all politely).  They've always turned out to be
> from one of the areas where it's native.  I would not have described it as
> "alive and well" here.
>
> Peter Mc.

Yep, I concur on the McM / Salem isogloss. There's none of the "needs
washed/worshed" here. Pretty soon there'll be a linguistic toll booth
somewhere on Wallace Rd. to keep each town's riffraff in place.

PR