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Originally Posted by targa911S
Since moving here and not being from here I have noticed the the words "to be" are not in the PA vocabulary. They don't say "It needs to be fixed" They say "It needs fixed" and things like " It needs painted". I've even seen it worded that way in print ads. So why is that? I mean everybody says it that way around here. "Yinz" is grating enough but this makes me crazy.
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I've seen that a lot here on the board, mostly in the for sale section. I didn't know people actual *spoke* that way, I just assumed they were poor writers.
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