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<div style="font-family:arial,helvetica;font-size:10pt;color:black">-----Original Message-----<br>
From: dctr6 <dctr6@optonline.net><br>
To: triumphs <triumphs@autox.team.net><br>
Cc: lherault <lherault@verizon.net><br>
Sent: Tue, Jan 28, 2020 1:50 pm<br>
Subject: [TR] Needs Repaired<br>
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<div class="yiv3840630061MsoPlainText">"Ron L'Herault" <<a rel="noopener noreferrer" ymailto="mailto:lherault@verizon.net" target="_blank" removedlink__f841f5af-2510-456f-8b10-7d0228bb3658__href="mailto:lherault@verizon.net">lherault@verizon.net</a>> wrote:</div>

<div class="yiv3840630061MsoPlainText">Subject: [TR] needs repaired</div>

<div class="yiv3840630061MsoPlainText">>Warning:   This is not Triumph related.   </div>

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<div class="yiv3840630061MsoPlainText">> I'm an uptight New Englander who was taught English grammar by nuns who had</div>

<div class="yiv3840630061MsoPlainText">>sticks.  8-).     Face Book, was the first place I'd seen this usage.  Now</div>

<div class="yiv3840630061MsoPlainText">>it appears in a mailing list message.</div>

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<div class="yiv3840630061MsoPlainText">>"Needs Restored like that one."</div>

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<div class="yiv3840630061MsoPlainText">Ron – </div>

<div class="yiv3840630061MsoPlainText">    I heard something very similar a few years ago.  A friend was complaining about a crying child and said “That baby needs spanked.” Turns out the speaker was from Pittsburgh. Somehow the future tense (“needs to be spanked”) has evolved out of the language there.  He insisted that “everybody” there talks like that. YMMV.</div>

<div class="yiv3840630061MsoPlainText">Dennis Culligan, Highland, NY / 1976 TR6 CF57948U</div>
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