What do you use for the past tense of "to text"?

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Why on earth would it be "text" not "texted"? As in "He text his friend" instead of "he texted his friend".

I know there are bigger issues but what the heck?

As we all know, editors and publishers fiddle with texts all the time. If you want to be 100% certain of what was actually intended, you need an old style printed edition of the book. Certainly nothing that can be changed like an e-book. (It's a well known fact that Amazon has been "improving" some of the eBooks versions of texts they distribute.).

I follow a blog by a US author who looks for Briticisms, and he is very aware that editors and house styles can make it look like a British word is sneaking into the US when it's not in common parlance.

Haha thank you for finding that!

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