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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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pokewomans · Yesterday 13:01

Elsvieta · Yesterday 12:30

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

I think I say box set & I also say binge watch

pokewomans · Yesterday 12:57

@BarbarianBabsI do the same re text

LakieLady · Yesterday 12:54

Needmorelego · Yesterday 11:53

Well this thread is fun but I have to go.
Trying to think of a regional way to say goodbye 🤔
"Ta Ra For Now" maybe?

Tatty bye?

Or, as a former boss of mine liked to say, "Off you jolly well fuck".

PinkViola · Yesterday 12:54

Bake beans

HikingHippo · Yesterday 12:53

TremendousFlatulence · Yesterday 12:52

@HikingHippo - I've been advised to go 'no comment' on this. Grin

🤣 we need the laugh react back

TremendousFlatulence · Yesterday 12:52

@HikingHippo - I've been advised to go 'no comment' on this. Grin

pokewomans · Yesterday 12:52

Steeleydan · Yesterday 12:50

Its like when people say brought instead of bought, cringeworthy

Really? They have different meanings whereas pack is just a shortened version.

HikingHippo · Yesterday 12:51

TremendousFlatulence · Yesterday 12:50

"Brown Bagging" sounds faintly disgusting - like the sort of thing you'd do in an isolated and disused industrial estate or deep in the woods.

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Do you speak from experience, is that where your username came from?

😆

pokewomans · Yesterday 12:51

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...

Was using pack lunch before smartphones…

PollyBell · Yesterday 12:51

Dollymylove · Yesterday 12:49

Its quicker to drop the "ed" and just say pack lunch. Nobody has died because they say pack instead of packed, as far as im aware 😆

I am going to use pack lunch from now on actually

TremendousFlatulence · Yesterday 12:50

Needmorelego · Yesterday 11:51

No....
Americans say "Bag Lunch" or "Brown Bagging It" don't they 😂😂😂

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"Brown Bagging" sounds faintly disgusting - like the sort of thing you'd do in an isolated and disused industrial estate or deep in the woods.

Steeleydan · Yesterday 12:50

Its like when people say brought instead of bought, cringeworthy

Dollymylove · Yesterday 12:49

Its quicker to drop the "ed" and just say pack lunch. Nobody has died because they say pack instead of packed, as far as im aware 😆

pokewomans · Yesterday 12:48

I have always called it pack lunch, maybe it’s a London thing

LakieLady · Yesterday 12:48

GertrudePerkinsPaperyThing · Yesterday 12:40

I thought supper was a light meal before bed?

So could either be a light evening meal if your main meal had been in the middle of the day (so that has been your “dinner”), or in addition to an evening dinner if you’re hungry again.

I only ever have “supper” at Scout family camp - it’s a cake and hot chocolate before bed !

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You could well be right.

My GM and all the adults on my father's side of the family said it. No idea why my mother followed suit and I can't remember what her sister called the evening meal. I'm sure it wouldn't have been tea though, that's an afternoon thing with cake and sandwiches.

I took to referring to the evening meal as dinner because none of my friends knew wtf I was talking about if I said supper.

Flourshiba · Yesterday 12:47

aliceyyyy2654 · Yesterday 10:27

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

Heard this for the first time yesterday 😳

Poppinpoppinpopcorn · Yesterday 12:45

I've been saying pack lunch since infant school in the 70s,as did my parents and grandparents. It's not some new invention to piss you off.

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tiredtiredd · Yesterday 12:45

PinkyFlamingo · Yesterday 12:43

How can anyone be annoyed by someone saying pack not packed? Seriously? 😂

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It’s a big exciting world. Many things to get annoyed by.

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PinkyFlamingo · Yesterday 12:43

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.

How can anyone be annoyed by someone saying pack not packed? Seriously? 😂

GertrudePerkinsPaperyThing · Yesterday 12:43

backformoreofthesame · Yesterday 12:16

Isn’t it carry out vs takeaway ?

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I think take out is the Americanism.

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!

Clingfilmdefeatsme · Yesterday 12:42

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.

…. or said WRONGLY. You need the adverb, not the adjective. 😉😉

LakieLady · Yesterday 12:42

Pinkflamingo10 · Yesterday 12:26

It’s not as bad as “I should of…”
or “chest of draws”

One of these days I'm going to lose control of my inner pedant and ask people who say that to conjugate the verb "to of"...

GertrudePerkinsPaperyThing · Yesterday 12:40

LakieLady · Yesterday 12:38

Is it a north-south thing?

My family had "supper", my in-laws have "tea", and (the late) Mr L and I had dinner. We were both born and raised in SE England, as were our parents.

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I thought supper was a light meal before bed?

So could either be a light evening meal if your main meal had been in the middle of the day (so that has been your “dinner”), or in addition to an evening dinner if you’re hungry again.

I only ever have “supper” at Scout family camp - it’s a cake and hot chocolate before bed !

GertrudePerkinsPaperyThing · Yesterday 12:39

LakieLady · Yesterday 12:33

It may be a South London thing (I grew up in Croydon), but I often used to hear "asked" pronounced "arsed". The K completely disappears. It really used to get on my tits.

I'm not so bothered by "aks" or "aksed", because I only ever heard it from people of Afro-Caribbean heritage so regarded it as a dialect word.

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Yes I would say aksed is a valid regional variation for people of Caribbean origin in South London (where I live!). Also just dropping the k but I don’t hear that as much.

LakieLady · Yesterday 12:38

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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Is it a north-south thing?

My family had "supper", my in-laws have "tea", and (the late) Mr L and I had dinner. We were both born and raised in SE England, as were our parents.