This needs considered a regionalism?

[yabob]

The "Pittsburghese" discussion in the "iron" thread reminded me of something. There's a particular construct I will sometimes catch myself using, namely the dropping of "to be" out of sentences, particularly with the verb "needs". Example:

The car needs washed.

instead of

The car needs to be washed.

Often used in conjunction with replacing "needs" with "wants":

That house wants painted.

On occasion, I've heard that this is specifically a Western PA regionalism. Somebody said it "screams Pittsburgh" every time they hear it. I'm not actually from Pittsburgh, but rural Western PA, and Pittsburgh is the large city associated with the region. Does anybody know if this usage is really that specific?