Two of the boys came to visit us today.They like hanging out here. There is no telling what they’ll find different from their white bread house. Our neighborhood runs along a river but does not have easy access. The neighborhood is flat. Great scootering for kids that is not available in their neighborhood, Nob Hill, that the extended family calls Snob Hill. The boy in kindergarten can plan melodies on a keyboard and knows how a few other instruments function but his Father is interested in a sports career for him.
Then we let him cook octopi, squid, clams, and shrip (Ocean Medley at Kroger’s). The cooking part was fun and he ate an octopi because you just got to. His brother played video games. After eating, they decided that the fly strips needed replaced, so we did that.
His older brother has taken care of my virtual aquariums for me. What were once esthetically balanced are now gee-gaw heaven. More is better. Who knew?
Besides eating our candy, I don’t think they robbed us. There older cousin used to bring his napsack with the explicit plan to take stuff. He still shops at our house.
You’re not going to entice me with “Ocean Medley”, even if it is from Kroger.. My brother in New Orleans tried with no success. I haven’t tried the “shrip”, though. It might be OK, who knows.
If there is a shrip in that bag, we haven’t see it yet. But the tiny octopi tentacles are too interesting for a boy, the clams were most excelelent, and the squid was cut into shapes that least resembled squid. They needed sauteed well, then they were chewy and flavorful. I’d like to make a soup out of them. The smell that comes from the bag is a delight unto itself. Kinda like low tide.
needed to be replaced. Or needed replacing. Or needed replacement.
Californians and most of the English-speaking world. It’s very local to your area and others settled by mid-Atlantic Germans. I first heard it in southern Indiana.
In German you’d say, present tense, “muss ersetzt werden” (must replaced be). And it’s idiomatic to drop the final “werden”.
Hey yinz, they’re all part of the cultural heritage mishmash of western PA, eastern Ohio where nobody speaks too good. Now my truck needs washed so I’s going.
Same experience for me in Minnesota, and North and South Dakota, too. Plus I don’t think I’ve ever heard “needs replaced” or the like out of Wisconsin in any general way. People who talk like that come from distant parts - you know, exotic places like Scotland or Ohio.
You know, the whole region I mentioned is crawling with German and Scando heritage, so how might we account for the difference?
Funny … The sort of very artificial, very posh American accent you sometimes hear on stage and screen - think Kelsey Grammer’s Frasier - is usually referred to as Mid-Atlantic English.
Having grown up roughly in what’s called the Mid-Atlantic US, I always wondered at the term, since it didn’t seem to match any regional speech I’d ever heard. Until I realized that it means, in this case, “middle of the Atlantic” - i.e., a hybrid of British RP and cultivated 'Merikan. So maybe it really is what they’re supposed to speak out where the U-Boats play.
There is an efficiency is how we speak. I’m sticking with it. I’m also giving up the thought assuming a false identity. I think a linguist would figure me out.
Wisconsin accents are the only true American accents. UW Madison has sent teachers throughout the world to carry our enlightenment. You all are welcome.
There are praying mantis in our yard during the summer months. The last thing we need is mantis in the house. The dog has enough reasons to take flying leaps onto our laps without adding another. The major reason with use fly paper is that for 10 years, we had a dog that was abused and it freaked him out to no end to see a fly swatter, rolled up newspaper, or a hairbrush in our hands. Fly paper is ecologically sound and if we let the bugs build up we can take a good census of the deceased.
and then yur complainin’ about da chew??? 
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Funny … The sort of very artificial, very posh American accent you sometimes hear on stage and screen - think Kelsey Grammer’s Frasier - is usually referred to as Mid-Atlantic English.