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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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HikingHippo · Yesterday 12:38

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.

The one that really makes me squirm is turn't

Not turned
Not even turnt
But turn't

Seems to be regional-ish, seems to be a written version of a Bristolian dialect.

But it makes me want to rip my own eyes out.

I do wonder how much of this stuff is because people aren't reading actual literature these days, and so much reading is done on social media. Even the local "journalists" reporting online struggle to put a basic sentence together.

GertrudePerkinsPaperyThing · Yesterday 12:36

I think “pack up” is the regional variation, not “pack lunch”.

Pack lunch (I always thought) was just people saying packed lunch quickly and biting off the “ed”. So they weren’t strictly calling it that at all.

However, if people are writing it down like that, I must be wrong!

Yanbu in principle as it is annoying when people get things wrong. It’s a bit like calling the school holidays a half term, or a holiday in the UK a staycation.

gamerchick · Yesterday 12:34

BarbarianBabs · Yesterday 12:04

I hate the sound of ‘texted’ and don’t like how it feels in my mouth to say it.

but also know that text in past tense is incorrect so tend to say “I sent you a text” so I don’t have to say texted 🤭

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I say text either way. Texted sounds and looks wrong.

LakieLady · Yesterday 12:33

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.

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.

gamerchick · Yesterday 12:31

aliceyyyy2654 · Yesterday 10:27

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

Exactly what I thought when I read the title. Grin as annoying as Jag instead of Jab.

teaandtoastwithmarmite · Yesterday 12:30

aliceyyyy2654 · Yesterday 10:27

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

My parents called it this. Derby

Elsvieta · Yesterday 12:30

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

LakieLady · Yesterday 12:26

NoelEdmondsHairGel · Yesterday 11:22

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

Yep, that rankles with me, too.

A friend seems to have diffficulty saying the plural of "text". She says "texties" instead, and it sounds like "testes" so I struggle not to laugh.

Pinkflamingo10 · Yesterday 12:26

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

Dr13Hadley · Yesterday 12:25

Mash potatoes annoys me. It’s mashed ffs!

itsmeitsyou · Yesterday 12:25

Needmorelego · Yesterday 11:08

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

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Made me think of my disappointment a few weeks ago.
Visited a different office for work training. We had arranged to get chippy for lunch as there is a local one that has won lots of awards.
Thought I'd try a chicken tikka muffin. My disappointment when it was chicken tikka in a barm!
Colleagues rolling around with laughter as I explained I thought it would be some kind of savoury muffin! Like bacon and cheese scones😆

HambleTheDoll · Yesterday 12:21

Lazy bastards 🤣

Mycatiscraycray · Yesterday 12:18

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.

Wrongly

backformoreofthesame · Yesterday 12:17

I have been reading a book lately that suggests that the move of dinner from dinner time to tea time or beyond started in the upper classes around 1800 and that lunch was then created to fill the gap

maras2 · Yesterday 12:17

oviraptor21 · Yesterday 11:06

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

Or a lunch that's in a pack.

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tiredtiredd · Yesterday 12:17

ForeverTheOptomist · Yesterday 12:02

To pack or not to pack.
That is the question.

Meal deal innit

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backformoreofthesame · Yesterday 12:16

Sherararara · Yesterday 12:04

No, that’s just an Americanism working its way into our language.

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Isn’t it carry out vs takeaway ?

Floatlikeafeather2 · Yesterday 12:15

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'm from the South West which means I'm a "southerner" too. We had "dinner ladies" at school and they served us "dinner" after the "dinner bell" had rung to mark the start of "dinner time". When school finished we went home and played until it was time for "tea" at "tea time". As a child, the only person I knew who called the evening meal "dinner" was a friend who had a Scottish father and a mother from Belfast.

BoaAlba · Yesterday 12:14

As a linguist, I can confirm that in spoken English, pack lunch would be a normal way to say packed lunch. It’s to do with the unvoiced final consonant of packed /t/ being elided due to the voiced /l/ of lunch.

Edited to add that the /t/ and /l/ also are enunciated with the same (or almost the same) tongue placement, which adds to the tendency to elide the /t/

it is possible to pronounce the final /kt/ of packed but is potentially ‘marked’ in general conversation.
It would irk me if it was written.

Lomonald · Yesterday 12:04

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?

Cheerio perhaps 🤔 😀

Sherararara · Yesterday 12:04

BCBird · Yesterday 11:57

It's like when people say take out instead of takeaway- boils my pissBlush

No, that’s just an Americanism working its way into our language.

BarbarianBabs · Yesterday 12:04

NoelEdmondsHairGel · Yesterday 11:22

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

I hate the sound of ‘texted’ and don’t like how it feels in my mouth to say it.

but also know that text in past tense is incorrect so tend to say “I sent you a text” so I don’t have to say texted 🤭

Lomonald · Yesterday 12:03

BaronessEllarawrosaurus · Yesterday 11:07

Historically correct it's a lunch in a pack.

Will this is what I think it is a pack of lunch 😀

ForeverTheOptomist · Yesterday 12:02

To pack or not to pack.
That is the question.

MyArtfulGreySloth · Yesterday 12:00

I hate it too