"He needed _for_ me to tell him..."

[Wilson Gray]

The above is from a post to 78thASA. For a very long time, I've had a
vague memory that I once lived among people who ordinarily used
constructions like it:

"They want for you to go uptown."

But I couldn't be certain because I couldn't recall an actual instance
in which someone spoke that way to me or even an instance in which I
had overheard it said to someone else.

It's nice to see that it really exists.

Oddly, simple _for to_ is, IME from listening to "guests" on shows
like Maury, Springer, and The Judges, fairly common:

"She wanted me to stop by for to drive her to the club."

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-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint
to come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
-Mark Twain

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