A lot of this thread seems to be singling out Pittsburgh 
I don’t really have a accent from there but I do proudly say “needs cleaned” and “needs changed”. I think even in Pittsburgh the accent is exclusive to a few areas.
I don’t think this is regional, but one that I’ve noticed myself hating lately is my co-workers saying “girrrrrrrl” every time they start a sentence. That might have more to do with the people saying it than the word itself, though.
Guilty, and completely unapologetic. Is this really regional, though?
I have never heard an asterisk referred to as a splat, and have lived in Tennessee for most of my life. Also, no one would ever “mash 867-5309”, they would dial it. They’d mash the individual buttons or keys, though.
I’ve mentioned this one before, but it really annoys me the way English people use “sorted” as a stand in for any completed act. “I’ve got dinner sorted.” What, you had it in the wrong order?
Heh. My good buddy (who grew up in Pittsburgh) does this. “Whenever I went to the store, I forgot my keys.” Me: “You do that every time?”
Well, I am happy to be able to piss some of “ya’ll” off.
As a former Texan, I will tell you that I am going to quit reading this thread.
Cuz, I’m fixin to fix dinner. 
Okay, it may well not be a Tennessee thing. I was once a customer service rep for one of the big wireless companies. I took about 5000 phone calls during my employment of which anywhere from 1/2 to a 1/3 were from the south. I heard splat often enough.
Sorry, I didn’t pay you no attention, do what?
Gleena, Former Mississippian
That’s okay. Most folks don’t pay me no nevermind anyhow. 
Same here. Better yet, do you say, “needs redd up”? That’s the REAL test.
No, which is what I said in my post…
That’s what happens when you have a dozen tabs open at once. I don’t multitask well.
My dad always “mashed” buttons. He was from the mountains of Virginia. “Mash the start button on the mircowave.” If you saw the size of his hands the word would seem appropriate. My mom, the real southerner, eventually picked up the habit of saying “mash” instead of “press”.
Nope. It’s strange actually, of all the members of my family the only ones I consider to have a “Yinzer accent” are my aunt and uncle and they live closer to the city. But for the most part, my parents don’t have one. You can hear it slip out on certain words such as my mom usually says cAAr for car and since I’ve moved away from the area I notice it more when I talk to them on the phone. The only regionlism that seems to have stuck to me is the “needs cleaned” thing. Didn’t even know it was a regionalism until about 4 years ago. Said it all my life.
Chicago - very common usage. I said it to someone in from California and they laughed and said they could tell I was from Chicago!
Okay, first of all, when you have the last word of a sentence in quotation marks, put the final punctuation there as well, okay? [del]Good, we can get along.[/del] I mean, “thank you very much.”
That said, I LOVE the idea of using “splat” to refer to the asterisk! It’s like they’re describing what’s left of a small bug after someone has squashed it with a hammer, or a rolled-up newspaper.
What term do they use for the octothorpe (#)?
I’m so embarrassed. I always type my comments according to MLA guidelines, in which case I’m correct about the placement of the punctuation, but my mistake here was forgetting to attribute the quote!
So you can occasionally hear someone say “mash the splat” (Pedant 4).
I fixed that for you. 
I like regionalisms. I’ll steal them when I like them enough.
But I’ll never be able to say “I’m waiting ON LINE.” I wait IN line, and always will.