To point out that it's PACKED lunch and not PACK lunch?

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I keep seeing threads on here where people say "Pack lunch" I KNOW this belongs in Pedant's Corner but hey...only people who already know will see it then!

I also get irritated by "mash potato"....it's "MASHED potato" ffs.

I would say texted ,but it doesn't bother me if people say text.

I love variations in speech and regional accents.

Pack up in Yorkshire

No its 'text' just text. Texted sounds silly

I thought pack up was from Lancashire sort of area.

Yanbu

I also have issues with mash potato

And sausage. You had a sausage or some sausage. Not just sausage

I would say texted as the past tense too.

Set of DVDs in a box - so they are boxed. Or they are a box with a set inside.

Lunch in a pack - packed lunch. Or lunch in a pack.

Ahem some sausages

Kind of ruined my point there

I'm in Yorkshire. I use the past tense.
I think text instead of texted, pack lunch and mash potato sound lazy and the use of them really sets my teeth on edge.

So 'sausage and chips' is wrong?

I say 'cunt' 'wunt' 'shunt' and 'dint' so I wouldn't say language is a strong point of mine

Pack up.

I know some people who call it snap. I used to work with a bloke who did and said loads of people from round him also did.

I've just been reading about this and irregular verbs are getting rarer. All the new verbs seem to be regular and that includes to text.

I would say sausage and chips,to many sss in sausages.

I'm in Yorkshire and pack up is used here. I think it depends where you live.

I live on one side of the city and say ginnel where as my friend lives on the other side and says snicket

Why 'snap' though?

Is it because of the sound the box makes when you open or what? Never understood it...

'Take out.' Damn Americanisims drive me mad!

It's take-away (English) or carry-out (Scottish). Bloody take-out, argh!

I see snap and pack up as local dialect but pack lunch as lazy speech.

We would say entry or jitty.

Ah, see someone else has mentioned snap.

I believe it's a mining term. Miners always had their pack up in a box with a strong hinge which snapped shut. Maybe I was having my leg pulled but my colleague said this was to keep the mice out your food. Apparently there's lots of mice down coal mines.

I suspect that the use of irregular verbs is just too much effort for some people. Laziness is just becoming more widespread.

What are ginnels and snickers, SP? (I had to type ginnel three times, it kept auto correcting to gin sling????)

I quite like "take out" and some other Americanisms. Language is constantly developing.

Nowt wrong with being lazy.

depends on whether you are using pack as a noun or a verb, doesn't it?

Pack lunch - Lunch in a pack

Packed lunch - Lunch you have packed up.

Both seem fine to me.