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

[ICameOnTheJitney]

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 agree with Sandiacre.

To me a snicket is the poky-out piece that locks into the latch on a gate.

I don't know who decides but text used in the past tense is grammatically incorrect as I see it and it grates on me every time I
see or hear it.

But accent can create some of these mistakes. The people who write draw instead of drawer do so because that's how they pronounce it. Here in Scotland drawer is said with a r at the end so we don't make that mistake. We make plenty of our own of course.
Similarly Scots tend to be bemused by the Southern English pronunciation of "pour", "paw" and "poor" which all sound the same in SE England, and all sound very different in Scottish English.

AN r

Pack up here in East Yorkshire...also quite common to hear "break-fast" as in the true meaning of the term...as a pedantically inclined person they're IMO more accurate than my southern pronunciation. Have also heard ward-robe broken correctly. It isn't a war-drobe!

ICameOnTheJitney I'm working class Yorkshire.

I'm trying to resurrect "spice" for sweets in my house to my non-Yorkshire children!

I say for past tense I say text' - yep, it has a silent "ed"

Admiral I'm in the west of Yorkshire and say breakfast as brek-fust and war-drobe.

I assume text is a regular verb. Using text in the past tense just sounds lazy and uneducated to me.

Kepek I'd say 'she put kettle on'

When I was little and lived in East Yorkshire it was packing up or packers. Now I live in North Wales and DH and his family say snappin' which is odd, but they think packing up is wrong.
They also say butty jam instead of jam sandwich and dinner for lunch and tea for dinner, it gets bloody confusing when MIL asks if we've had dinner at about 4 pm

After all put takes a double t in putting. Text doesn't so it's not conjugated in the same way.

Well everyone I know must be lazy and uneducated then.

I said it sounds lazy and uneducated. I assume people who speak like this to be lazy. Unfortunately I know some of them are not uneducated but to me they sound as though they are.

Perhaps they are referring to the dance step and not the food?

"I can mash potato, mash potato
Do the twist, I can do the twist
So tell me baby
Can you do it like this?

Tee Cheers! I now have that song in my head.

Where do you stand on mash spuds?

I assume text is a regular verb. Using text in the past tense just sounds lazy and uneducated to me.

And you've never explored why you think this way? Thought about what your biases are?

usual or mash tateys

Cheers Kapek that's lovely. I suppose it's purely and simply because I can't see anything grammatically which would cause me to think the verb is irregular.