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.

That explains it. Oh's dad was a miner.

*They say pack-up in Lincoln.
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Not if they're not from Lincoln

Being lazy and its acceptability depends on context I suppose. One would hope people would make an effort in job interviews but it must be harder to do so if you have generally lazy speech habits.

Doesn't bother me unless is not obvious what is meant in which case I feel a fool.

I remember when my mum relocated to Cheshire from the south coast, we went to the local chippy and I had to ask what a batch was. I received many an incredulous look for that

Am surprised no-one has mentioned "piece" ... my MIL (Scottish) would sometimes ask me, when staying at ours, whether I was taking "a piece" "your piece" to work...

Written language has been foisted upon people with different dialects therefore it doesn't always conform to the spoken word in pronunciation, spelling, or even the word itself.

Now while forums are text based communication they don't have a language gatekeeper/editor before other people read them. So are more of a hybrid between spoken and written language.

I've heard the plural for 'text messages' as being 'textses' many a time on Jeremy Kyle;

'When did I say I was gonna bash your cousin's nan's door in?'

'You're a compulsive liar. I've got the textses to prove it.'

Snap or pack up near me. I'm in South Yorkshire.

"Skim" milk annoys me too - it's "skimmed" milk

Also, when someone says they "marinaded" something - surely it is "marinated"? I may be wrong on this, though

And another thing DRAWER not draw.. This one is so lazy.

Or non-rhotic.

I think dialect enriches our language. I don't think lazy speech and writing do.

My DD came home from school fuming on Friday. The teacher was giving example sentences as they were doing their spelling test. She said "mash potato" and DD wrote mashed, " because that's what the word is mummy, who says mash potato?" Of course DD was wrong. The teacher was looking for mash. DD was not impressed

The most infuriating one I ever saw was about a month ago when I looked on eBay to see how much I might sell DS' old bedroom furniture for.

I found a similar set listing detailing bed, wardrobe and "chester draws."

Chester. Draws.

I had to email the seller.

Melanie - "skim milk" seems to be an American thing that is catching on over here. I don't suppose it matters in the scheme of things (and in fact there probably is a case to be made that it's perfectly grammatical) though I always find it faintly irritating. The Guardian do a series called "Your next box set" and every week a guy used to turn up on the online version and complain that it should be "boxed set".

Pack-up or packed lunch here (N Lincs) - agree that pack lunch is just wrong! And everyone at work calls their 10am break 'snap', or 'snap break', though it's not a term I'd heard until I started working here (perhaps a steel industry th

Bollocks... that was steel industry 'thing'.

I say snicket (or ten-foot!) and either mash or mashed potato...

I say 'skimmed'.

I don't find language annoying or have urges to correct grammar. I care very little

I read the OP and thought 'I always say packed' then i have just re-read a post that I have written and I put 'pack!'

I wouldn't be ill mannered enough to correct someone's lazy speech but I notice and I do care.

Sooty If someone said pack lunch while.speaking to you or something similar would you be correcting them in your head? I know someone who does this

My nanna tries correcting me, while by correcting I mean wants me to speak with her Irish accent

If I wrote 'packed lunch' as I speak it, it would be 'pack lunch'. However, I don't actually say pack lunch as that would involve a hard 'k' sound. It's actually a softer k and a sound after it that can probably only be described by linguistic symbols. This is my accent, my accent which has evolved from a different dialect.

Online chat is different to speech, but also different to the written word as we're taught to communicate it.

It's all very fascinating really.

As these threads usually go a bunch of people with accents of their own come along and make judgment calls about people with different accents and pronunciation usually based around being "lazy" or "thick".

Always I'd be in there and complaining. Go in! Tell that teacher she's WRONG!

I wouldn't say anything but yes I suppose I would be sort of correcting them in my head. I couldn't just not notice and we all form judgements even if we don't voice them.