People saying pack lunch instead of packed lunch

[tiredtiredd]

This makes me irrationally angry

Unorganised still bothers me - always taught it was disorganised 🤷‍♀️

At my primary school it was called "being on sandwiches".
Regardless of whether your lunch actually contained a sandwich or not.
Although it 99.9% would have contained a sandwich.
No one sent a thermos of pasta in them days.

I think that 'snap' is from Yorkshire? I like regional expressions. That's very different from an expression which appears to have come about because of something being misheard.

I recall having to tell children that no, they hadn't been caught on 'bad' wire. They would not believe me when I told them that the product was 'barbed'.

I say pack lunch. You must have such an easy life to get so annoyed by that.

I understand not liking silly abbreviations. It's well down any list of misuse of the English language.

Such as overuse of literally, big, or referring to things by the word used in the United States. We are in the season of autumn, for example- the Fall is the name of a tv show or a former band from Manchester, not a season.

@tiredtiredd What's your opinion on the evening meal being called....
Tea
Dinner
Supper
Which is correct?

Not really

But 'pack up' is fine -- it's a regional idiom, and it makes perfect sense.

The other one doesn't. It grates on me in the same way as the US usage 'I'm so tan!' rather than 'I'm so tanned!' And 'text' rather than 'texted' as the past tense of 'to text'.

Similar to “mash” potato.

The other phrase that really jars is “I would of rang you…”. Two clangers side by side

But I do acknowledge that it’s my issue that I find it jarring and for the people who write/say these things it either doesn’t matter to them or they don’t know the difference.

Dinner as I’m a southerner. Supper is quite a middle class twee term for it 🤢 and I don’t think regional?

It’s not actually wrong. It’s lunch in a pack so a pack lunch.

It’s packed lunch. Anything else including pack up is incorrect.

I would say packed lunch but how is pack lunch actually wrong?

And the world doesnt end if somome says either

But 'pack up' makes more sense than 'pack lunch'. 'Pack up' wouldn't bother me at all!

I feel this way about people saying text instead of texted

So how can one phrase be regional but the other not ?

I didn’t say the world would end I said it made me irrationally angry. Pack lunch isn’t the correct tense or term for it. It’s packed lunch said incorrectly.

It's in a pack. Pack lunch is fine. Pack is a noun and a verb.

You don't call ice cream 'iced cream' do you? Even though that's originally how it came to have that name.

Yep pack up grinds my gears too

We call it a bag lunch. 😂

It's like some people thinking they don't have an accent. Accents are only for other people.

Are you American 😂😂

Someone I know says "packet lunch"

It was "pack lunch" when I first went to school back in the 70s. Maybe it's a regional variation, but when it's been used for around 50 years I think it's considered to be an accepted usage.

Where I live it’s often called bait, butty box or grub. I hope I didn’t ruin your day.
It’s a regional variation - a pack with lunch in = pack lunch for some people.