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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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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 ?

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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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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.

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

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

HambleTheDoll · Yesterday 12:21

Lazy bastards 🤣

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😆

Dr13Hadley · Yesterday 12:25

Mash potatoes annoys me. It’s mashed ffs!

Pinkflamingo10 · Yesterday 12:26

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

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.

Elsvieta · Yesterday 12:30

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

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

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.

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 12:34

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 !

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"...

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. 😉😉

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!

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? 😂

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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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