To be annoyed by people who speak (or type) like this?

[Scaredypup]

Happy to be told iabu if it’s a regional thing, but I’ve only seen it on here and it drives me mad. I’ll try and write some examples..

”My dog needed fed” or maybe it’s “needs fed”

I don’t know, I actually can’t think of any examples because it doesn’t come naturally to me.

I hate it too.

It's a Scottish thing so yabu. I'd never come across it before seeing it in here either

It's normal speech pattern in Scotland. So YABU.

I don't mind it if it's colloquial but it's irritating when people who don't normally do it try to be funny, like "did ye, aye"

I only see it when someone wants to sell a dodgy sofa for more than it’s worth - somehow putting “Needs gone” doesn’t make people want to put offers on.

I say "the cat is needing fed" as do most people in this neck of the woods.

Honestly if it annoys you IDGAF.

I’m from edinburgh which is an area of very anglicised speech patterns and I lived a decade in London but I still find “needs fed” or “needed fed” totally normal and unremarkable.

I'm fairly well spoken (Scottish) but didn't realise this was dialectal until an English university friend pointed it out. The English version sounds really jarring to me.

This gets asked about loads on here. It grates on me as I read it as it's so unnatura and uneducated l to my ears. I don't hear it in real conversation, maybe there is a disproportinate number of Scottish posters

It’s a Scottish construction, but I agree it looks so odd written down

Yes it is regional - Scottish.

"Needs feeding" sounds "wrong" to me though I know it's just dialect too!

Perfectly normal up here 🤷‍♀️ It’s a regional thing, if that helps with your irritation.

YABU

No doubt you’re a pretentious middle class Hooray Henry/Hyacinth from the Home Counties who votes tory

Totally normal speech where I live. Didn’t realise it was regional. What’s the alternative? Needs to be fed?

Draw instead of drawer or brought instead of bought are much worse

Needs fed makes perfect sense

@CarlCarlson

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Exactly, needs to be fed is correct English

It's just a contraction, missing out "to be".

Mixed up use of tenses doesn't bother me UNLESS it's... "Should have went". Or worse, "should of went".

I’m wanting’s another scot thing.

I went for a lay down. I’d say it’s yet another American mispronunciation.

What??

Looking down on us working class Scots for speaking incorrectly 🙄

Never heard that!

I’ve picked it up a bit from my Scottish ex, but it still looks jarring in writing, without the accent as context, which is OFC, totally unreasonable.

Outwith is an amazingly useful Scottish word OP. Borrow that to console yourself. 😉

I'm England but on the Scottish border and it's normal here too.