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People saying pack lunch instead of packed lunch

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tiredtiredd · Yesterday 10:26

This makes me irrationally angry

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aliceyyyy2654 · Yesterday 10:27

Wait until you find out some people call it ‘pack up’

Doggymummar · Yesterday 10:29

Yeah we used to have pack up for school dinners

Needmorelego · Yesterday 11:05

Regional variation.
Does it matter?

oviraptor21 · Yesterday 11:06

Yep. Horrible. It's a lunch that's packed.

WouldYouLikeAnyToast · Yesterday 11:06

I'd annoy you then as I call it pack up. 😁

BaronessEllarawrosaurus · Yesterday 11:07

Historically correct it's a lunch in a pack.

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tiredtiredd · Yesterday 11:07

Needmorelego · Yesterday 11:05

Regional variation.
Does it matter?

No it’s just incorrect

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LondonLass2026 · Yesterday 11:07

It's just an abbreviation I guess.

Technically it's got to be "packed" as in you pack a lunch at home and take it out.

Yeah it is annoying but it's just how people speak these days.

italianlondongirl · Yesterday 11:07

Yes I’ve seen this

It slightly grates on the nerves in the same way that math instead of maths does

The correct term is “packed” as it is a lunch which has been packed in the past I thought, as opposed to being carried in a pack on your back?

backformoreofthesame · Yesterday 11:07

I use packed lunch and pack up interchangeable

but not pack lunch which sounds like a lunch for a bunch of girl guides

Mondaytuesdayhappydays · Yesterday 11:08

I hate ‘pack up’

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tiredtiredd · Yesterday 11:08

Pack up doesn’t bother me as much as it’s another term for it. Pack lunch just sounds like it’s being said wrong.

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Needmorelego · Yesterday 11:08

tiredtiredd · Yesterday 11:07

No it’s just incorrect

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No.
It's regional.
Not everyone in the UK speaks the same version of English.

NormasArse · Yesterday 11:09

You have too much time on your hands 😁.

Needmorelego · Yesterday 11:10

@tiredtiredd some people call it "snap".
Do you need a lie down if you ever hear that?

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tiredtiredd · Yesterday 11:10

NormasArse · Yesterday 11:09

You have too much time on your hands 😁.

So must you to be commenting that I have too much time on my hands.

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Pearlstillsinging · Yesterday 11:13

It's not regional. People seem to have stopped using 'ed' at the end of past participles recently.
I frequently see 'I use to .....' , 'He is bias' and other examples.

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tiredtiredd · Yesterday 11:13

Needmorelego · Yesterday 11:10

@tiredtiredd some people call it "snap".
Do you need a lie down if you ever hear that?

I’ve never heard of that but it doesn’t bother me tbh. A different term for it and not incorrectly said.

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Armorlux · Yesterday 11:17

'Pack up' was a Yorkshire variation - and probably other places - which I remember even as a child. So from ancient times.

'Pack lunch' has coincided with smartphone use, along with 'worse' when they really mean 'worst'.
And on it goes...

trekkiemonster · Yesterday 11:18

tiredtiredd · Yesterday 11:07

No it’s just incorrect

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In your opinion 😁

HelenaWaiting · Yesterday 11:20

tiredtiredd · Yesterday 10:26

This makes me irrationally angry

Me too. Along with "hence why", "less" when they mean "fewer", "expresso" and the utter piss-boiling "I'm afraid to say" (You're SORRY to say! If you were afraid to say you wouldn't fucking say it!)

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tiredtiredd · Yesterday 11:22

HelenaWaiting · Yesterday 11:20

Me too. Along with "hence why", "less" when they mean "fewer", "expresso" and the utter piss-boiling "I'm afraid to say" (You're SORRY to say! If you were afraid to say you wouldn't fucking say it!)

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Oh god expresso is a bad one.

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NoelEdmondsHairGel · Yesterday 11:22

See also “I text you” instead of “I texted you”

WearyAuldWumman · Yesterday 11:23

WouldYouLikeAnyToast · Yesterday 11:06

I'd annoy you then as I call it pack up. 😁

I've never heard this expression before, but to my mind it sounds much better than...•refuses to utter write the words*.

It's always 'packed lunch' for me.

Shego · Yesterday 11:23

I can't say it bothers me, but I've put YANBU as I also get irrationally wound up over other words said wrong.

'Pacific' when they mean 'specific' and 'aksed' instead of 'asked' drive me particularly mad.