Post AV6teiu6ZSmQ8LSKmW by greghiggins457@appdot.net
(DIR) More posts by greghiggins457@appdot.net
(DIR) Post #AV6t3xOliYZWNCGd28 by grammargirl@zirk.us
2023-04-28T12:03:01Z
0 likes, 0 repeats
If you hear someone say, “My car needs warshed,” you know you’re in the Midland dialect territory.
(DIR) Post #AV6teiu6ZSmQ8LSKmW by greghiggins457@appdot.net
2023-04-28T12:09:39Z
0 likes, 0 repeats
@grammargirl or the North East Texas dialect territory.
(DIR) Post #AV6thCabAkgGmRVvl2 by stancarey@mastodon.ie
2023-04-28T12:10:08Z
0 likes, 0 repeats
@grammargirl Visually it's giving a misle: "war shed"
(DIR) Post #AV6tucosxYT7tgb5XM by coffeenlanguage@mastodon.social
2023-04-28T12:12:28Z
0 likes, 0 repeats
@grammargirl I passed this one on to my little Spanish-born half New Englander. Thanks, mom! And... oops?
(DIR) Post #AV6u1g7R5jxu9ldZce by cohomologyisFUN@mastodon.sdf.org
2023-04-28T12:13:49Z
0 likes, 0 repeats
@grammargirl I don’t pronounce “washed” with an R, but I do use the “needs washed” construction.“The car needs washed.”“The child wants picked up.” etc.
(DIR) Post #AV6uAjJCbLiIeiSOLg by jsit@social.coop
2023-04-28T12:15:28Z
0 likes, 0 repeats
@grammargirl Recently I heard what I’m calling a “positive ‘or anything’”, as in: “As kids we would play monopoly, scrabble, or anything.” In a similar sense to “and stuff”. Is there somewhere I can read about this?(Reminds me of “positive ‘anymore’”, which I think is midland, which is why I ask.)
(DIR) Post #AV712aTkFLLadHS7w8 by colorblindcowboy@mastodon.art
2023-04-28T13:32:26Z
0 likes, 0 repeats
@grammargirl I grew up with “warshed” in Northern California. But not the “needs” part.
(DIR) Post #AV71nxqJCJVghlb7Me by Raven67@zirk.us
2023-04-28T13:40:58Z
0 likes, 0 repeats
@grammargirl "up the crick" is another good clue
(DIR) Post #AV76SLfuPPAs1GFHWK by MBNashTN@mstdn.social
2023-04-28T14:33:08Z
0 likes, 0 repeats
@grammargirl It needs warshed, but it didn't get squarshed by that falling boulder.
(DIR) Post #AV7L0VvUCSdf17iWO0 by grammargirl@zirk.us
2023-04-28T17:15:56Z
0 likes, 0 repeats
@jsit Interesting. I have a piece about the positive "anymore" coming up. I don't think I've ever heard the positive "anything" used in the way you describe, but I'll look into it more now.
(DIR) Post #AV7LARMi0opvleBRhY by grammargirl@zirk.us
2023-04-28T17:17:57Z
0 likes, 0 repeats
@cohomologyisFUN "Needs washed" is also part of the Midland dialect. https://www.quickanddirtytips.com/articles/why-do-people-say-warsh-instead-of-wash/
(DIR) Post #AV7LISve5D5ivvLreq by jsit@social.coop
2023-04-28T17:19:24Z
0 likes, 0 repeats
@grammargirl I heard it on a podcast once and have heard it a small handful of times since then, I’ll try to find it
(DIR) Post #AV7LRBqMyTK8YE2n2m by wesleyt@mstdn.social
2023-04-28T17:20:46Z
0 likes, 0 repeats
@grammargirl I drop the infinitive all the time (needs washed in particular) and my wife (she’s a linguist) teases me incessantly about it. I have no idea why I do it, and I didn’t even know it was wrong until I met her about three years ago. I’m 52 years old. Thank goodness I never got the “warshed” pronunciation from my Arkansas-born paternal grandma.
(DIR) Post #AV7LSr7czJKUrZuWkC by grammargirl@zirk.us
2023-04-28T17:21:21Z
0 likes, 0 repeats
@jsit That would be great. Thanks!
(DIR) Post #AV7LaEnxKnjILCEHfU by grammargirl@zirk.us
2023-04-28T17:22:26Z
0 likes, 0 repeats
@wesleyt I've heard lots of stories about people who didn't know it was "wrong" until well into adulthood (because it's not actually wrong where you live!).
(DIR) Post #AV7YshDXjaQh4tKUEK by jsit@social.coop
2023-04-28T19:51:31Z
0 likes, 0 repeats
@grammargirl Thank you for sending out that poll! I can’t find the podcast (it was years ago) but I’ve been thinking about it ever since then (and have heard it a couple more times) and would love to get to the bottom of it.
(DIR) Post #AV7ZLj5zpVvBIjdsMy by wesleyt@mstdn.social
2023-04-28T19:56:51Z
0 likes, 0 repeats
@grammargirl To be clear, my wife did research and explain the regionalism to me. And she only gently and occasionally teases me about it. I’m just frustrated, as in my 52 years, I’ve lived in three different places for a decade or more (Phoenix, Odesa, TX, and the SF Bay Area), and no one ever corrected me. I have no idea where I picked it up.
(DIR) Post #AV7i0uFS4LjVOdDCV6 by NaN@body.social
2023-04-28T21:33:55Z
0 likes, 0 repeats
@grammargirl I had not heard of this Midland speech style as a description. While reading about it I learned that there are British English versions of this, too (West and East Midlands).For a while I've been fascinated by BBC announcers who attach a slight "r" to words that end with the "ah" sound. For instance, Omaha and Panama would get a slight "r" added to the end. Do you suppose this is a British version of Midlands, or something else?
(DIR) Post #AV7md9ZbwFobkO8OK8 by gordonwhite1@mas.to
2023-04-28T22:25:41Z
0 likes, 0 repeats
@grammargirl For we who live in the other Washington it is either: Warsh-ington State or Wash-ington State. Usually it is the Cascade divide that decides.
(DIR) Post #AV7vywfBWALtfKCvCq by grammargirl@zirk.us
2023-04-29T00:10:30Z
0 likes, 0 repeats
@NaN I think it's probably different. I have an interview coming up with Lynne Murphy, who talks about British English, that I think you'll find interesting. We covered some of the r-topics. That should be the 5/16 podcast.
(DIR) Post #AV86BXvxltCmH6hd68 by cohomologyisFUN@mastodon.sdf.org
2023-04-29T02:04:46Z
0 likes, 0 repeats
@grammargirl it’s really interesting because I’m pretty sure I picked up this construction in childhood from my mother, and she is not from that region. I’m not aware of any ancestors that were from that region or that were Scots-Irish. It’s somewhat of an anomaly. 🤷🏽♂️
(DIR) Post #Ab3QonrBPi8E2765MO by jsit@social.coop
2023-10-22T22:18:31Z
0 likes, 0 repeats
@grammargirl I finally found one to capture in the wild! This was on a radio show, where a host was talking about being thought of as "soft”:“Just generally -- people tell you you're too sensitive or anything.”
(DIR) Post #Ab3T86DLaKZuNVnEJc by grammargirl@zirk.us
2023-10-22T22:34:25Z
0 likes, 0 repeats
@jsit Thank you! Remind me where you are (or where you heard this on the radio), and I'll ask around.
(DIR) Post #Ab3UjmgQkTtElKvie8 by jsit@social.coop
2023-10-22T22:35:50Z
0 likes, 0 repeats
@grammargirl It was on WFMU, a station in New York/New Jersey, but the speaker is from Florida if I’m not mistaken.
(DIR) Post #Ab3UjoZ3krBMb3UrR2 by jsit@social.coop
2023-10-22T22:46:07Z
0 likes, 0 repeats
@grammargirl To my ear, I would say, “People tell you you’re sensitive or whatever.”“Or anything” would be if I were to say, “I’m *not* sensitive or anything.”