jibe/jive, needs washed

[Fritz Juengling]

OK. I think the McMinnville/Salem isogloss is easy to explain--you folks got
the college and we gots the state prison, Oregon State Correctional
Institute, State Mental Mospital, and the State Legislature (am I being
redundant?).
Seriously, when I was going out with my wife, I did find it odd to hear her
family say 'needs washed,' but I do hear it often now.  Surely, it was there,
but I just didn't notice it. I'd be curious to know whether this is found in
Missouri and other neighboring states (whence most of the early settlers to
Oregon came). If so, there is a good likelihood that it came with the
pioneers to the Willamette Valley.
I guess the whole business needs investigated.
Fritz (who will do his best to keep our riffraff in Marion County--you can
have West Salem.  BTW, do you folks in McM pronounce the <L> in Polk
(County)?)
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> > 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.
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> > Peter Mc.
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> 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.
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