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

[HanneHolm]

god not " he text me"

you sound like you is forrin

Or txt

i say "I t her'

I forgot

NO MINTY
it would be I txted her always

look it says it here

Haven't seen that bat for ages.

grr!

Feminine, they didn't though. I have been working on and off in the States for over 20 years and I really noticed it in the last 3/4.

Agree with you on that 'care less' malarkey though. They never got that one right.

donnie
"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 )".

I wouldn't have mentioned it but as a "pedant", I thought you'd want to know , but afaik there is no such thing as a past declension.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Declension

I think it's an age/class thing.

Old + middle class = texted
Young + working class = text

Others in between.

Just a theory though.

I am young(ish) and working class and say texted COS IT'S CORRECT

But I'm 40 AND working class!

I say texted.

And again, I'd point out the utter bollocks of someone being offended at being called working class. I'm working class and proud of it, thanks.

And I disagree (as I've already said) that saying 'text' is a working class thing. It's just a thing, nothing to do with class.

I asked my kids earlier about 'text' and 'texted' (without any leading questions, before I get accused) and both DD (12) and DS (8) looked at me like I was mad and said 'it's texted!'. Dead proud, I am .

Mardy.....maybe I mean 'conjugation' then (it's a lot of years since I studied grammar and verb conjugation).

However, I am still right about 'celli'

On the other hand, who actually gives a flying fuck about how to sat 'text' in the past tense? I, as a well educated middle class Guardianista only write long letters using a quill, which I seal with a waxen stamp and then have hand delivered by my servants

Servants? How very quaint!

I use dormice to deliver mine.

Get with the times, love

God I hate it when people say 'text' rather than 'texted'.

I have a 15 year old - he knows better.

moondog you have been lucky then

I've been putting up with it from my American relatives and DH for at least 20 years!

it must have been filtering!

I'll blame your lot then Feminine!

who is dan brandon?

I just C&P-ed it from a forum.

Sorry to resurrect this thread but I happened to be watching Jezza Kyle yesterday ( disclaimer: it was at the gym whilst on the running machine ) and the ghastly fat tattooed chavs people on there said 'text' whan speaking in the past tense. So it's official - only 'those sorts' say it!

and as steve martin said - is the past tense of to tweet, i twatted??

I'm dragging it back up because I keep seeing "text" as a past tense on threads and I does read very strangely.

*My inclination is to say "texted" but am not passionately attached to it! Thought this blog entry was interesting - especially the point that a new verb will pretty much always be assumed to be regular: so in that case would be spelt texted, not text. That doesn't settle how it would be pronounced, though.

www.grammarphobia.com/blog/2013/07/text.html*

There is actually a rule for the pronunciation of -ed: if the last sound of the infinitive is voiced (makes your vocal cords vibrate), then the -ed is pronounced /d/; if the last sound of the infinitive is voiceless (doesn't make your vocal cords vibrate) then the -ed is pronounced /t/. The only exceptions are if the infinitive finishes with a /t/ or a /d/ sound, then the -ed is pronounced /id/. Ergo texted, if indeed it is regular, is pronounced text-id.

I assume people are talking about the simple past (I text/texted him last night), but no ones mention the past participle (I was text/texted by my friend), if people are going to make it an irregular verb, they really should go the whole hog and make it really irregular.

Eat ate eaten
Be was/were been
Go went gone
Text exet tix or something.

Firmly in the "text" team

Texted, texted, texted!

Text!

Texted!