Needs…?

As annoying as ‘I’ll come with’ !

Agreed. It's on a par with "going school/toilet/Sainsbury's" - really offends my ear!

I've always said, needs washed

This is a feature of Scots dialect: “This is needing cleaned ”, so people who say “This needs cleaned ” are either Scots, or influenced by Scottish English. Educated Scots do use dialect features when they think they are speaking Standard English. Continuous tenses of the verb “need” are another of these features.

By the way, I am an educated Scot. 😉

I wonder if this is a regional thing. I haven't ever heard anyone use "needs" in that way.

Really, notgran? What do you say?

Well, needs must but other than that I have never heard This needs cleaned.
I go toilet I have heard frequently and it revolts me.
Oh, and I will write you. Dreadful.

I think it might be regional. I have spent my whole life saying "I'm going a walk", not "going for a walk". I raised this on another forum and discovered several others (but not all) brought up near to Birmingham did the same. Meanwhile I have a Yorkshire friend who always says "while" instead of "until"

This triggered a memory of my late Irish grandparents whereby one of them would often say " will i make a cup of tea now" - makes me smile to this day!

Often heard that use of "needs" here "oop North".. also "could do with". Doesn't grate for me. What does is hearing : "I was like.. she was like". Also dropped "g's" at the end of words, even by some Beeb presenters, plus the likes of Priti Patel with her "asylum seekin' ". Our language deserves better.

I had noticed this construction and assumed it was Scots dialect; my Yorkshire in-laws used while in place of until. It would be sad to lose some of these local forms of speech, quite different from just plain sloppy.

I get irritated when I read "I looked out the window" instead of "out of" - mostly American rather than the UK (as far as I'm aware).

I hadn't heard this before either, I always say "the shirt needs washing"

I always smile when one of my American family asks a child if they "want to go potty" different meaning in UK obviously.

"Needs washed" and similar phrases are standard Scottish parlance. Get annoyed if you like, or just accept that different regions sometimes have different ways of speakng from what you're used to. I love regional variations in the use of my mother tongue.

Sparklefizz

I get irritated when I read "I looked out the window" instead of "out of" - mostly American rather than the UK (as far as I'm aware).

Nope - west of Scotland. It may well be American usage too, but they got it, like Hallowe'en from us.

I worked on a project at a manufacturing facility in Cumbria for about a year and I remember the engineering reports often contained the comment ‘This needs fixed”. Seems to be a regional thing.

I often look out the window or, on occasion, look out the door. Not in the least irritating, rather, regardless of how well educated one is, acceptable Scottish dialect.

I would say it needs washing, and probably 'will I make a cup of tea?' I think so, anyway - maybe I'd be more likely to say 'shall'? I don't know - I'd have to catch myself saying it. There is both Scots and Irish influence on my English speech though. #mongrel

My Cheshire ‘outlaws’ go shop, go school, go golf - never putting to before the noun. In the NE, I’m more likely to say ‘that needs a good wash’ - no idea what a bad wash would be!

I'm from Cumberland and I say that things need a wash too.

Marydoll

I've always said, needs washed

This is a feature of Scots dialect: “This is needing cleaned ”, so people who say “This needs cleaned ” are either Scots, or influenced by Scottish English. Educated Scots do use dialect features when they think they are speaking Standard English. Continuous tenses of the verb “need” are another of these features.

By the way, I am an educated Scot. 😉

That's where I've heard it, Marydoll 🙂
My dear friend was a 'posh educated' Scot and she used that expression. "This car is needing cleaned" etc

That fits. I hear it most from my Scottish relatives, but from others too.

Who is to say what is correct or not?
Language is always evolving, that's the joy of it!

My English comes from Wren and Martin’s Grammar …

I tried Wren and Martin's online grammar checker and it accepted, This car needs cleaning.