Have you ever heard of the "needs washed" construction? That's when the verb "need" is followed by a past participle like "washed" or "fixed" without "to be." For example, "That dish needs washed." Two listeners recently wrote to us about this. One says she started to hear it when she moved to Michigan and the other after moving to northwest Ohio. Both say it's driving them crazy. There have been a lot of studies of "needs washed" as a regional feature in American English. While the epicenter