“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?

So much Northern and MIdland grammar and slang is simply a result of lack of interference since the Vikings. Geordie dialectal slang is so Swedish it's hard to ignore once you notice.

Scottish

That chicken wants eating

It never occurred to me that these phrases where local to Scotland (or wherever) until I met my now DH. When we first met he spent half the time asking me what the hell I was talking about

Scottish here!

The cat’s wanting in.
That dog wants out.
Needs washed.
Needs done.
Get it gone.
Mind and
Pictures/flicks for the cinema.

Weather basically falls into two categories - ‘It’s a good drying day’ vs. ‘It’s no a good drying day.’

We say “the cat’s wanting in” 😀

Oh, now that has reminded me, we will often say “he’s looking in” to mean “the cat wants in” and not that the cat is literally looking into through the window. Although he always is actually looking through the window

As a Northern Irish person living in SE England, who is often mocked by husband/friends/family for turns of phrase that seem completely normal to me, I find it beyond bizarre that people here are CONSTANTLY saying "So and so was sat..." And no one ever mentions it?! E.g. "Jimmy was sat at the front of the classroom." What on earth?! He was sitting or he sat!

“How would a Scottish person ask about where did you stay on holiday temporarily, ie which hotel, resort etc, seeing as 'where do you stay' is used for 'where is your permanent residence”

It’s in the context, it’d be a bit weird to ask where someone used to live if the conversation was about a holiday.

You’d really only ask where someone stays/lives if you don’t know them well and you were finding out things like that, so it’s really not confusing.

Neither is how meaning why as well as how...usually.

I may have been known to tell my DC they want a good boot in the hole inherited from my granda.

It's a Lancashire thing to. They "Go t' shop" not to the. Totally normal.

'I'm after cutting the grass' = I cut the grass a few minutes ago.

Do they say that one in Scotland or is that just a N Ireland turn of phrase?

I just had to get Scottish DP to translate skelped bahookie

I'm after cutting the grass

Definitely used in all of Ireland, not just the North. DP thinks it's less typically Scottish but might be used in the Highlands.

I would use I'm after cutting the grass especially if I was exaggerating, 'so I was after cutting the grass and her from next door...'

I think Glaswegians speak with a lot of Irish influence (obviously).

My Cumbrian DM will say, for example, 'that shirt needs a wash' or 'this towel wants a wash.' I still say it too because of her, it sounds normal to me.

I just had to get Scottish DP to translate skelped bahookie

Love the word bahookie. And 'shoogly'
DH's favourite Scottish word is cludgie

Yep we say 'mind' instead of 'remember' - mind that x on your way back.

We also say 'learn' instead of 'teach' - that might learn you not to run next time!

My DD cracked me up recently as my mum taught her hickory dickory dock. Only mum doesn't pronounce H so DD sings 'ickory dickory dock, the mouse ran up't clock'

Ohhh! That's what 'I was after...' means? I've seen it, heard it but never quite been able to work out the meaning, as it requires context. To my ear, it sounds like 'I was looking for' but that doesn't usually fit.

I have not come across needs vs wants before but my Glaswegian friend will say she is waiting on instead of waiting for (someone or something) and she will say hurted instead of hurt. It baffled me at first but I’m used to it now.
Another friend will ask, where was you instead of where were you. Is that a regional thing? she’s from East Midlands.
I’ll admit I have not got used to that (if you are reading this, I’m sorry Carol and yes it’s still like nails on a chalkboard to me )

Oh I've got one- the back of.

'I'll get you at the back of five'. Totally accurate way of measuring time.

I always though “I was after ... “ meant I wanted something , like
“I went uptown cos I was after a new pair of jeans” = I went into town because i wanted a new pair of jeans”
@DramaAlpaca Cumbrian here ! “It needs a wash” or “its wants washing” are Interchangable!

MaMaMaBelle
It probably is, I just ment everyone that I know not everyone in Scotland 😂.

I'll get you at the back of five

DP uses this ask the time, has done for years, and I still have to double-check its meaning each time. I don't know why it won't go in.

*all the time

Thank you for starting this thread, I have only noticed it on MN over the last year or so and it drives me mad (purely because I’m not used to it) so it is interesting to read about where it’s used!

(It's probably because I'm quite stupid.)