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

[Marmitelover55]

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

i have an incredibly simple solution. Stop using the foul habit of using "text" as a verb and use proper English instead.

"I am sending a text"
"I sent a text"

Job done.

Words are important. I'm happy to be a word snob.

The average persons vocabulary is a third of what it would have been a hundred years ago. The least we can do is not make up words to suit ourselves.

Yes but we're losing the war on this one Even fecking Twinkl had a grammatical error in its material the other day. It's a site with resources for primary teachers!

RIP the past participle

Aaghh just asked DH, DD1 and DD2. We all agree on texted except DD1 who thinks text...

Who cares ?
People like me who have to plough though text messages and email full of illiterate, incomprehensible jibberish to try and work out what on earth the sender is trying to say.

When I am faced with an account of something with no paragraphs, hardly any grammar, misleading spelling and textspeak quite frankly I lose the will to live.

This is the funniest thread I've read for a while. keep going people, drink more

it's texted btw

I write 'texted' but, upon listening to myself, it became clear I say 'texed'.

'Uppity'? It's uppity now to prefer to speak correctly? Well, okay then.

It amuses me when people say "Who cares?" on a thread about grammar. Clearly everyone who is posting on the thread cares one way or another, especially the people who have posted several times - including you, usual!

Usual I get the texed pronunciation. You will not be alone. The second t and the d close together is troublesome if you say your T'so with a hard ter sound.
I just realised if you split the word tex-ted it is easier than text-ed.
Wow. Never spent so long thinking about the pronounciation of a single word before.
BTW, thinking that another person's way of pronouncing a word is hilarious is a bit mean.

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'???

Randomly omitting the 'ed?
'Cos that's what irregular verbs do, innit?

For example:
She read the book.
She cast her net far and wide.
She cut the pear.

Mind you, it isn't true that it's "random". Irregular verbs are almost universally verbs that are very frequently used in daily conversation, like drink, eat, read, and... text.

Why is the t and d close together troublesome? We can manage it with rented, tested, nested, dented, belted etc etc.

Tara love the cutted pear reference
I think you just won.

Verity, it's the X.
I had speech therapy. X is the hardest. I was taught to think of it as ks.
T is glottal for some people, not for others.
So the kster then a hard d is tricky for some people.
If it's not tricky for you, count your blessings.

I'm with all those who say text doesn't change, just like cast, cut, bid, bet, burst, forecast, broadcast, among others. As Tara says above, it's a very common verb now and will lose the 'ed' regular ending with common use. That's what I love about the English language; it's so fluid and changeable.

I'm always hearing text rather than texted around here (southeast). I do, however, work with lots of people much younger than me and the DC - late teenage and early 20s - also say text. I find texted just so... awkward to say. Even DH, who can be quite stuck in his ways, says text.

I've never heard anyone say texted. Do you all sound the T on the end of text?

Of course. Like I pronounce the t on the end of next.

Eastmids

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

"Impossible" to pronounce you say? So you didn't go there? I don't think anyone else finds it "impossible" to say, to the point that they are unable to make a taxi driver understand. Maybe on another occasion you could write it down. Or if Uber is around, you could plot it electronically on your phone and then you wouldn't have to speak. A couple of options there. Hope that helps.

This is one thing that really winds me up. It is texted. I can't understand why that would possibly be hard to say.

"I will rent a house. I rented it."
"I am fasting. I fasted all day today."
"I read the text. I texted him to reply."

Even if people for some reason can't say "texted" (and I still can't see what the problem is), why can they not write it?

Apart from anything else, it's a matter of clarity. If you say something like "I text him regularly" I assume you are currently doing so. However, you might in fact mean that at some time in the past you texted him regularly. It leaves room for totally unnecessary misunderstanding.

So that's the same with cut and burst. I cut it regularly. Is that in the past or present? I put out the bins. Is that yesterday or regularly? You just have to judge by context.

I don't think anyone else finds it "impossible" to say [Thaxted]

Good, so maybe we can stop the idea that texted is so difficult to say that it requires the creation of an irregular verb form. I don't anyone without a speech defect will find texted hard to say.

I know texted is correct, though underlined in red here as a spelling mistake! However, in my opinion, it sounds daft. Text sounds better.

Some of the texted brigade are getting very cross. It's really not worth getting wound up about.
Again, fantastic for you if you find texted easy to say and/or don't think it sounds daft. That's great for you. I hope you appreciate your good fortune :)
I think the rest of us are ok with not saying texted though.