Date: Tue, 25 Oct 1994 23:30:55 -0400 From: AAllan[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]AOL.COM Subject: This needs listened to Readers of the September Newsletter of the American Dialect Society (pp. 8-9) know that the definitive word on "needs + p.p." will be spoken by the troika of Heartland experts Tim Frazer, Tom Murray, and Beth Lee Simon at about 9 a.m. Saturday, November 12 in the Midwest Regional Meeting of the American Dialect Society, Chicago, Palmer House, Parlor H. - Allan Metcalf