To think that the past tense of the verb to text is texted, not text!

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Assuming it is actually a verb and not a noun...

Found a blog David Crystal wrote on this:

david-crystal.blogspot.co.uk/2011/07/on-texted-vs-texed.html?m=1

Eastmids No. Have you?

I tried to go to Thaxted but when I tried to tell the taxi driver where to go it was impossible to pronounce.

Never been to Hickstead, but I live near Thaxted. No problem pronouncing it, but that may be practice.

TEXTED, by the way. Text , if used as a verb, is present tense only. Anything else is bollocks grammatically incorrect.

I like reading Pedants' Corner.

Texted may be right...but it sounds wrong.

Texted sounds unnecessarily twatty.

Texted is really not difficult to say, not sure why it would sound twatty

People who refuse to say texted sound unnecessarily twatty to me

'Texted' is correct. Whether people like it or not, in Britain the error is an almost infallible indicator of class and / or education.

But why does it sound wrong, Gotta? Do you think "tested" sounds wrong?

"I text him regularly" sounds sensible. "I text him yesterday" sounds deeply twatty.

People who say a normal regular verb like texted sounds twatty are just being arsey for the same of it.
Its no different to a thousand other English verbs and no reason to make a fuss about it. Just talk properly, like what we do.

Sake not same. Bloody autocorrect. Although it does know the word is texted which is more than we can say for half the people here.
If a chinese phone knows the verb, so should you.

I've never met anyone who says 'I text' for the past tense until this thread.

The person who said it was 'toddler speak' was spot on.

I've heard it but only along with other common mispronounciations like Westminister or pacific (for specific). This is definitely a snobby thing and I'm not normally a snob! But it does really annoy me for some reason.

Of course you pronounce the 't.'

That's hilarious you've never heard it.

We clearly live in different galaxies!

I think texted in my head. I say text'd rather than text-ed (Like hopelessly devot-ed).
Text-ed sounds wrong. Like hurted would be wrong.
However saying "text'd" is linguistically hard and the d is almost silent.
So I absolutely understand text in the past tense.

It's all to do with the harsh xt sound and glottal stops I think.

Texed isn't even a word. And no, its not a silent t on text!

I have sent a text.

You can say it how you like, its a free world. However some of us will be right and some wrong.

I have NEVER heard anyone in RL say text instead of texted. Despite reading this thread, I cannot understand why anyone would do that? Why would you randomly omit the 'ed'???