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“Needs washed” and similar... regional?

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Magpiefeather · 31/08/2018 19:58

I only know one person IRL who uses this turn of phrase, for example

Needs washed
Needs cut
Needs tidied

They are from the New Forest...

Have seen this a lot on MN and I just wondered is it a regional thing?

Before I knew this New Forest Friend and read Mumsnet I had never heard this before. I would say

Needs TO BE washed
Or needs washing

Anyone shed any light?

OP posts:
AnElderlyLadyOfMediumHeight · 02/09/2018 07:41

I can, however, punctuate, however exercised I am. It'd.

BirdyBedtime · 02/09/2018 07:55

Another Scot here who had no idea that outwith wasn't used in England! That explains why spell check always underlines it. I'm a civil servant and use it a lot!!

Clap was used when i was a child for "you'll get a clapped bum" for smacking

OP - pure is very Glaswegian - it actually puts my teeth on edge. I'm from near Aberdeen and Doric has many distinct phrases many of which have been mentioned already

Luckymummy22 · 02/09/2018 08:21

I say many of the things mentioned without even thinking.

So do my kids in their wee English accents Grin
I never realised they were Scottish.

a few of the sayings though I don’t say and that’s probably because I’m from the Glasgow area.
I wouldn’t use ken in normal conversation but i know East coast and Ayrshire would for example

n0ne · 02/09/2018 08:31

Messages is shopping in Scots English?! That's fascinating! It's the same word in Dutch too, which I always found bizarre

FrancisCrawford · 02/09/2018 08:36

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lottiegarbanzo · 02/09/2018 09:14

Sarahandduck18 I thought Ned was an acronym that came out of some Scottish government report in around 2000 but, looking it up I find it is actually a 'backronym' and the word had been used in Glasgow since the 1960s. Ned

Chav I thought came from Charver, an old word for or used by gypsies but that seems a bit more complicated too.

'Go with' I always thought, came form Buffy the Vampire Slayer, who was always saying 'Want to come with?' which I'd never heard before. Likewise 'My bad'. Similarly 'bear with' from Miranda.

Sarahandduck18 · 02/09/2018 09:36

I think different regions say plait (pr plate or plat) or pleat or pigtail for 3 way twisting of hair on either side of the head.

Don’t know which is said where though!

ItWasntMeItWasIm · 02/09/2018 09:53

Pleat up here in North scotland.

Yes ned older than turn of century.

FlyMaybe · 02/09/2018 09:57

He's in his bed - he is ill
Fit like e roads - what are the roads like?
In ma hoose - in my house
Chap the door - knock on the door
Goonie- dressing gown
Fish supper - fish and chips
Messages - shopping
Wains- children
Cheil- young person
Blowing a hoolie- very high winds
Tis a fine day - not actually pouring down
It's Baltic - it is very cold
First-footing - New Year celebrations
Hogmanay - New Year
Skelp- smack
Jaggy bunnet- hair sticking up
Jags - inoculations

I spent 15 years in NE Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
Lovely to read this thread and reminisce

legolimb · 02/09/2018 09:58

West Yorkshire here.

DH is too - from a town about 10 miles away. However he comes out with some phrases I haven't heard before. I think it is perhaps that his parents were older and used more traditional localisms?

Are ye lekkin out?

Are you playing out?

Spell=splinter (in your finger)

Oh and he "wakens up " ?

Quite a difference but we were both brought up in the same borough council.

Interesting thread.

S0upertrooper · 02/09/2018 10:23

I'm Scottish but I stay in NE England. Some of the expressions that baffle me include:
Wor Mam - our mother
I've got a one - I've got one
Mirro - mirror
Can I lend xxx - can I borrow?
I was tret badly - I was treated badly

Need the go, the dishes need done, the place is manky!

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