to say, once again, the past tense of " to text" is " texted "

[HanneHolm]

god not " he text me"

you sound like you is forrin

*as in

I wear uggs and have tattoos so I fit into what you expect from a 'text' user.

Texted sounds daft.

"I despatched to him an electronic message via the mobile telephone."

Surely only such a construction proclaims me as a Native Speaker™ in all my majesty!

It is not! There are plenty of irregular verbs in the English language. There are loads with the same present and past tense: hit, cut, shut etc

This is a 'new' verb. There is no 'right' past tense. Get a grip!

Or as in test/tested.

both are wrong, "he sent me a text" it is a noun not a verb

I text him, I text her but I never text you

Texted sounds utterly daft in my accent. It sounds like 'tex-stid'

Exactly canwe. You don't say hitted or cutted or hurted.

Texted sounds just as wrong as all of those to my educated ear so I'll stick with text.

oh well if oyu have an accent you might find it hard

Exactly canwe. You don't say hitted or cutted or hurted.

But you do say fasted.

" X sent me a text" or "I sent X a text", surely?

Verbs which end in T are often irregular so it makes sense that "to text" would be irregular as well. It's pretty hard to say "text-d" which is what it ends up being.

I wear Uggs and I say texted, what does that make me?

Or... If you put it another way, they're both right. Can't we all just get along?

Haitch?!

I don't even know what haitch is

So 'are you seat' or 'are you seated'? Sane thing. Seriously...

Agree with all those that say that plenty of verbs take an irregular suffix, so no reason why text can't.

And to the poster who's flapping about it being a noun, hundreds of words are both nouns and verbs. I went to a dance/will you dance with me? Let's go for a walk/ walk this way. It's perfectly valid.

Indeed; there are no hard and fast rules pertaining to the past declension of verbs; for example:

eat - ate
speak - spoke
shit - shat
text - ?

As far as I'm concerned there is no correct past declension since 'text' is such a new 'verb' (although as a pedant I refuse to refer to it as anything other than a noun ).

And tex'd is the abbreviation of texted? Completely agree with canwe Anyway, it's pronounced 'tex't' just the way 'shipped' is pronounced 'ship't' and not 'ship-ped'. Maybe it's to do with the aspirated consonant on the end. But don't listen to me, I'm only 'forrin'

Sorry, but 'texted' makes you sound a bit like a thick teenager . Even my 12 year old knows the difference.

And you can't compare it cut/hit etc because a 'text' refers to a 'text message', and you wouldn't say 'I message him' because then you just sound like a caveperson (not sexist ). Hit and cut are actions, so you wouldn't say 'hitted' or 'cutted'.

And as for saying 'haitch' - again, my children know to speak properly - why are some adults proud of their ignorance???

Haitch & M, HaitchMV. No no no no no.

But 'texties' is worse...

It's not pronounced text't. You weirdo !!
Texted. Like rested

Lol. Teenagers don't say texted. They're all wrong.

So you say I message him. Not I message. Point proved. QED

Lol messaged. I'm a rantin'