the word is TEXTS, not TEXTSES!!!

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I'm hearing this more and more. On tv, radio, pals etc etc. Drives me mad.

And don't even start me on breakfastses.

yanbu!! its the expression 'gotten' thats driving me up the wall at present. i told dh if he used it again i would divorce him.

I've only ever heard it on Jezza Kyle.

Don't like "gotten". Nor do I care for "She just text". Surely the verb to text has a past tense?

My friend says Texes. I piss her off by asking why she's randomly talking about a US state

saying "gotten" is so "on trend" at the moment. It makes me cringe.

yes and don't get me started on 'on trend'

How is "gotten" being used that is so irritating?
Can't say I hear it too often round here.
Text as a past tense, though, drives me nuts!

My colleague talks about her "boyses dad". Makes me shudder.

Yes, to be fair, I've only ever heard it on Jeremy Kyle, and the people on there are not really brains of Britain

The noun is "text message".
The verb is "to send a text message"
Using "To text" as a verb is ghastly.

But I am a very old pedant

Haven't heard 'textses' in RL and find it very .

I don't mind 'to text' as in 'I'll text her in a minute' and use it myself.

But 'text' as the past tense is INFURIATING. Get it right, fer Chrissakes!!

Gotten is a perfectly sensible word.

You use "forgot" and "forgotten", don't you?

AgentProvocateur, that's ridiculous - boyses!

Trills, afaik, gotten is ONLY actually a recognised word when it is used in the term "Ill-gotten". Gotten on its own isn't a word at all. Forgotten, however, is - they're two different words :)

Well, gotten is just a version of 'got' that's turned into an archaism here but is alive and well in American English. So in a weird way Americans speak 'better' or at least older and more traditional English than speakers of British English.

Sorry, will sling my hook to Pedants Corner.

"gotten" is an Americanism, it's not in the 'English' language.

My brother has started using it.

It's really irritating!

ladyclarice ooh well you learn something new every day!

yep some things do irritate. I have done "have you had your invite?" before.But we need all sorts on MN

YES! I thought it was just me. It really, really makes me cringe.

Having said that, thegruffalosma is right - I've only ever heard it on Jezza Kyle. Example dialogue:

"A texed me and said that B was sleeping with C and D ain't the father!"
"I've got the texes on my phone as proof! Loads of texes!"

Aaaaaaaaaaaaargh.

Ooh this is a tagent of my own particular bugbear, which is when people abbreviate names like Rebecca to "Bexs". It's just "Bex". No 's' needed! Or otherwise they need an apostrophe.

I use "gotten" all the time. Sometimes I could avoid it, but it's natural now. No big deal.

LOL at "we need all sorts on MN".

How gracious of you! :o

what is wrong with using the word "Become" not bleedin' gotten

What's so wrong with using poor old "gotten"?
I use them interchangeably, I think. Sounds like one of the things my parents used to correct me on when I was little- they'd learnt English grammar up all the way, so they were Chief Pedants.

Gotten

And when did a series become a season? Tell me that!

Since we started watching more American shows that have more episodes (only 12 Fawlty Towers ever made!) and needed more distinctions.

e.g. Friends is a series made up of 10 seasons, each of which has 22-24 episodes.