“Needs washed” and similar... regional?

[Magpiefeather]

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?

Definitely said in Northern Ireland.

Yup Northumbrian here and totally normal 🙂

Dh infuriates me by leaving out the "to be" from sentences like this. It isn't proper English in my view. He's from Sussex.

Some one posted 'where do you stay?' for 'where do you live?' as an example of Scottish way of speaking.
I can’t think how else you’d ask those questions, or am me being dense?

Needs washed - I’ve come across this with American friends with Scandinavian/German roots.

“Needs washing”
NW England

I love all of these regional language quirks!

@claracluck78 now that I have remembered that my New Forest Friend has Scottish grandparents I think that is where they’ve got it from!

@morelloslipstick that is just lovely, adore that! Though I can see how it would have caused trouble for the autistic child!

Oyesiam - the Scottishism is that they mean the same thing. Up here no-one would ever ask where you LIVE. They would ask where you STAY instead.

A lot of the things often mentioned on threads as being uniquely Scottish are actually also very normal in other areas - usually Northern Ireland and NE England. (Things like “messages” mentioned upthread for instance)

However, I think the use of stay instead of live is uniquely Scottish.

'Get wrong' for told off. NE England. Yes!

I thought It was standard English until I went to a southern University and used the phrase and was mercilessly chided.

Also 'spelk'.

Where do you stay/live is 100% Scottish. Never hears it anywhere else.

This needs washing is heard in NI all the time.

I am from Yorkshire and had never heard it locally.

Tami Thankyou, I had a feeling I was being dim! I’ve even had a Scottish uncle asked if I’d stay in Scotland and me thinking “ I am staying in Scotland, I’m staying in Fort William” before realising what he meant.
Blame menopause brain....

Some one posted 'where do you stay?' for 'where do you live?' as an example of Scottish way of speaking.
I can’t think how else you’d ask those questions, or am me being dense?
Outside of Scotland we would ask 'Where do you live?' to find out where someone's home is, but in Scotland they ask 'Where do you stay?' to find the same thing out.
If, for example, someone went to Portugal every year on holiday, in England we might ask where they stay (when they are there), because the stay is temporary and it's not their home.

Very normal in my area NI. It’s how I say those things. I don’t honestly think I’ve ever said “the grass needs to be cut” or similar. It’s always “needs cut”

I'm also from Yorkshire and now live down south, and had never seen/heard what the OP is talking about before I saw it in posts on here.

yes all very normal here in Central Scotland.
the cat wants in
the windows need washed
That greetin bairn needs a skelped bahookie!

along with "Can i get?" which seems to drive southerners mad but is standard here.

Also from Yorkshire and had never heard this before.

Interesting that it’s also a NI thing. As a PP said Scotland and NI seem to share a few language quirks like these.

I love “the cat wants in”!

messages ...general shopping usually different shops rather than a supermarket but not essential

No the supermarket weekly shop is “getting my goods”

I love “the cat wants in”!

How else would you say that?

It's usual in Scotland too.

Down here in Cornwall people say "where's that/he/she/it to?" instead of "where is that/he/she/it?". Folk also say "up Bodmin" or "down Sennen" - the up being if it's east or north of you, down if it's west or south. "Upcountry" applies to anywhere east of where you are.

My mum's side of the family are Scottish but I don't recall anyone saying "needs washed" or whatever. But maybe I just never paid attention! They're all from the east coast/Edinburgh way.

I'm from Northern Ireland and I kept reading it and rereading it thinking "what's wrong with that?" Perfectly fine here.

Mother-in-law from Herefordshire says ‘wants’ instead of needs

So:

That chicken wants eating
The grass wants cutting

Drives me a bit nuts

A couple of my favourite Yorkshireisms are

“What we ‘avin’ for us tea?”
“Put t’wood in t’ole” (put the wood in the hole = shut the door)

A friend loves that we call the cinema the “pictures” where I’m from... anyone else do that? Maybe that’s quite a common one?