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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoPlainText>"Ron L'Herault" <<a href="mailto:lherault@verizon.net">lherault@verizon.net</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Subject: [TR] needs repaired<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>>Warning: This is not Triumph related. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>> I'm an uptight New Englander who was taught English grammar by nuns who had<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>>sticks. 8-). Face Book, was the first place I'd seen this usage. Now<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>>it appears in a mailing list message.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>>"Needs Restored like that one."<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Ron – <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText> 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.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Dennis Culligan, Highland, NY / 1976 TR6 CF57948U<o:p></o:p></p></div></body></html>