Judging from this fanwriter's specific tics I'd guess she's from Appalachia

[conuly]

The trouble is that her* characters are English.

Now, most people with the needs washed construction have no idea it's regional, and I can see how both "come with" and the plural prounouns who all and what all snuck in there without notice (but not any form of a plural you, so I guess she caught that one herself!) - but I'm a little surprised that nobody ever told her that "drug" is a nonstandard past tense.

(Why don't people with "needs washed" ever recognize that it's a regionalism?)

* Well, you know what I mean. The characters in the fanfic.

Comments

[chasing_silver]

I'm from rural Southwestern Ontario and never heard "needs washed" until I moved to the Midwest USA. Can't speak to the others, but we didn't say "needs washed" and I lived in several different parts of Southwestern Ontario.

[topaz_eyes]

I'm from that area too--it was a common enough usage where I used to live.