So cycling is political act??

[emily_in_nc]

Jessmarimba, the "needs upholstered" in a previous post was what made me think this. This is an old construction in English which is retained in certain parts of the US through Scots-influenced language (as in, coming from the Scots language, a Germanic language from the Angles, spoken in lowland Scotland and Northern Ireland).

My in-laws talk like this -- they have lived in Ohio all their lives and are of Swedish and German descent. My DH, being from Ohio as well (though he's lived many other places since college) still says things like that. It sounds odd to me, being a southern gal!

[jessmarimba]

I should've thrown you guys for a loop and said that the chair needs reupholstered wicked soon.

(Oh, and just thought I'd throw in - I believe mom's family is of eastern European descent, in or near a region that was part of what was Czechoslovakia. She was living in Ohio when she met my dad but was born in Georgia)