Dialect. Today I remembered a usage I heard all the time in Southern Ohio and some of Indiana:
“The lawn needs mowed” or “The dog needs walked”, as opposed to “The lawn needs to be mowed” or “The dog needs walking,” as I hear in New York & New England. I wonder what the borders of this usage are?
A more purely rural usage (that I’ve only heard in rural OH): “I watered those tomatoes every day, but that’s all the taller they grew.” Or “He was headed for Columbus, but Zanesville was all the further he got.”
I love these localisms.