Thread: Words in the wrong context
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Old 08-09-2008, 05:41 AM   #56
Urbane Guerrilla
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Originally Posted by jinx View Post
"The car needs washed."
Seems to be a central PA thing.
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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