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chez_jay
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I strongly associate stuff like "went gym" or "go tesco" with working class Londoners, I've never heard it anywhere else. But I also think it's a younger person thing, none of the middle-aged, white collar, corporate cunts I know say it, so if you're old (sorry 😬) that might be why it seems new to you? Or maybe people just put on their best Standard English Voice in front of you so you don't get to hear all teh slangs.
I'm also Scottish and say "needs fixed" etc. Had no idea there were people about hearing it and thinking it strange, heh. Reminds me of the absolute bafflement of a coworker from Essex who didn't believe me when I said "you were" is a generally more accepted usage in English than "you was" - it's so pervasive in people of his background, it didn't even occur to him that most other people were saying something slightly different (we were writing a document, I don't habitually go about correcting people's dialect, honest).