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Treckly is a description of a form of speech which maximises the use of split infinitivesNo fair! If that is the case, it should be spelled "trekly". You Americans with your supererogatory consonants, I don't know!  
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that twarn't no american that posited that conjecture, joe riposted supererogatively.
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>that twarn't no american that posited that conjecture, joe riposted supererogatively.
No, a mere Pom!
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My apologies, jo. I did not realise that your answer was conjecture, and assumed that "treckly" meant what you suggested. This would mean that the definition was USian in origin, hence my jibe.  
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>My apologies, jo No apologies needed Max, I was just having a bit of fun !
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No apologies needed MaxOh, but it was! I figure that if I diligently apologise for every possible imagined slight or unintended offence in any of my posts, I might just be able to rack up 25 posts a day, which would see me hit "veteran" by anniversary day.
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Rapunzel:
Many years ago, a fellow I knew from the Johnstown area stopped me in my tracks by saying, "The lawn needs mowed." I had never heard this abomination before, and have since heard it mainly from natives of the Keystone state. Do you, or does anyone, know if this is a regional dialectical thing.
I will not ask your reaction to the construction itself, unless you want to wax wroth. Or have wroth wax you, as the late G. Marx once said.
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The lawn needs mowed.
I often hear similar sentence constructions in this area, which is quite a long way from Johnstown. It may be a PA Dutch thing, but I couldn't say for sure. Maybe Bobyoungbalt can help me out.
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"The lawn needs mowed" is certainly not a construction which has made its way to mid-Michigan, despite some significant German centers of immigration in the area.
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So, did the lawn get mowed onct or twict?
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