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People saying pack lunch instead of packed lunch

192 replies

tiredtiredd · Yesterday 10:26

This makes me irrationally angry

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concertinacornflake · Yesterday 16:01

StarDolphins · Yesterday 13:55

I give my DD a pack up. I put it on the Chester draws in the hall so she doesn’t forget it. I’m having rest bite currently so have time.

Showing your ignorance here as pack up is a traditional regional variation, not a mispronunciation or a misspelling.

concertinacornflake · Yesterday 15:59

Mondaytuesdayhappydays · Yesterday 11:08

I hate ‘pack up’

It's really ignorant to 'hate' traditional regional variations in language like this.

nutmeg7 · Yesterday 15:56

Same as “box set” rather than “boxed set”.
It’s American, they don’t do adjectival endings.

WearyAuldWumman · Yesterday 15:50

tiredtiredd · Yesterday 11:33

Dinner as I’m a southerner. Supper is quite a middle class twee term for it 🤢 and I don’t think regional?

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I always thinks of 'supper' as the last meal of the day - something small (more akin to a snack) taken after 'tea'. Your 'dinner' was the main meal of the day, taken usually at noon or a bit later.

However, once I started working 'dinner' became the main meal of the day taken in the evening after work.

I do think that both geography and class come into play here - I was brought up in a Fife coalmining town.

LGBirmingham · Yesterday 15:07

It is annoying but not as bad as 'ect' when it should be 'etc'.

Ifailed · Yesterday 14:54

Carry out might be a valid UK regional variation. But for some reason in my head this means taking alcohol home from the pub. Could be wrong though!

You are right , a carry out is drinks still in bottles/cans to take home/party.

As to people referring to 'snap', this was a metal tin that miners used for their meals. As industrial mining spread (especially to Wales) the name followed.

Armorlux · Yesterday 14:49

JustAnotherWhinger · Yesterday 11:52

It was pack lunch when I was at school and that was a very long time before smartphones!

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Your school should have included tenses in the curriculum

yellowbaby · Yesterday 14:48

The worse/ worst type examples i always assume to be because the person has never seen it written down or paid attention when they have. The last letter can often disappear unless enunciated properly.

yellowbaby · Yesterday 14:46

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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I have always used ‘afraid to say’ so not a new thing and my understanding of it was not as fearful but to denote that the person found it unfortunate. So ending a sentence with ‘l’m afraid’ does not in this context mean you are scared.

i agree with your other examples though.

Aussiesgettingsmashed · Yesterday 14:44

You either have a packed lunch or school dinner never a packed dinner or school lunch.

Doradormouse · Yesterday 14:37

Malasana · Yesterday 11:44

Where I live it’s often called bait, butty box or grub. I hope I didn’t ruin your day.
It’s a regional variation - a pack with lunch in = pack lunch for some people.

In Liverpool it's "sarnies","sardies" or "butties" 🤔

Doradormouse · Yesterday 14:34

My husband, who is from Sheffield calls it "snap" !

Heathertrott2 · Yesterday 14:32

People who call every school holidays Half Term. Do they actually know what it means?? Half term = half way through the current term. There are 3 school terms. Each term has a midpoint break. Which is the half term. It's not rocket science
I even had a school mum ask me on the first day back after summer holidays "did you guys have a good half term?"

Heathertrott2 · Yesterday 14:25

DaisyMayBojangles · Yesterday 11:49

I also hate the word ‘meal’ for some reason. ‘Eating my meal’ just makes me shudder for some reaaon 🤷‍♀️
’Going out for a meal’ auuuugh!

Oh this reminds me. I used to see a British mum call Porridge "oatmeal". I mean, Porridge is an awful word but saying oatmeal makes me want to punch myself in the lip.

SmokyMountainRain · Yesterday 14:13

StarDolphins · Yesterday 13:55

I give my DD a pack up. I put it on the Chester draws in the hall so she doesn’t forget it. I’m having rest bite currently so have time.

Is your DD called Jacqueline Hyde?

mmgirish · Yesterday 13:58

tiredtiredd · Yesterday 11:31

Not really

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Ah... Maybe you're just someone who craves attention then.

StarDolphins · Yesterday 13:55

I give my DD a pack up. I put it on the Chester draws in the hall so she doesn’t forget it. I’m having rest bite currently so have time.

AgnesMcDoo · Yesterday 13:45

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.

Pack up makes me irrational and it’s wrong. I might start a thread on it.

Gives me the total rage.

How dare people speak differently to me.

I’m right. And they are wrong.

RikthePoet · Yesterday 13:39

PinkViola · Yesterday 12:54

Bake beans

You win the internet!

thislittlelife · Yesterday 13:28

I feel the same about people who say "New Years". No. It's either "New Year's Eve" or "New Year". Cannot explain why it winds me up so much, and fully accept that it's a me problem!

ForeverTheOptomist · Yesterday 13:22

ForeverTheOptomist · Yesterday 13:22

incorrectly

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ForeverTheOptomist · Yesterday 13:22

Mycatiscraycray · Yesterday 12:18

Wrongly

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incorrectly

BerryTwister · Yesterday 13:18

I agree OP. I don’t mind any regional terms like pack up, butty box etc. But “pack lunch” makes no sense.

HikingHippo · Yesterday 13:08

Elsvieta · Yesterday 12:30

Someone I know gets v cross about "box set" (as in DVDs etc) instead of boxed.

But "box set" is correct, not boxed. Look at HMV or any other place that sells them

PackaMyMac · Yesterday 13:05

DH’s family are Welsh and say snappin’ which makes zero sense to me.
Packing up was the phrase where I grew up in East Yorkshire, or rather packin’ oop.