People saying pack lunch instead of packed lunch

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This makes me irrationally angry

There is no such thing as 'correct' when it comes to language, it is organic and constantly changing. Some of our ancesters would be confused or even appalled at the way we speak today. You can embrace change or get offended by it, either way you aren't going to stop it!

If you get angry over regional terms, I suggest you stay in your own little Southern bubble.

That’ll be tea - proving the point of regional variations for terms existing.

It's just an Americanism, I could care less

Yes I know tea is regional. Pack lunch isn’t

I also hate the word ‘meal’ for some reason. ‘Eating my meal’ just makes me shudder for some reaaon 🤷‍♀️
’Going out for a meal’ auuuugh!

If it's for a mid day meal, the correct term is a packed dinner.

I don’t get upset about regional terms. Let’s not try and turn this into a north/south divide 🥱

No....
Americans say "Bag Lunch" or "Brown Bagging It" don't they 😂😂😂

Says you.....

It was pack lunch when I was at school and that was a very long time before smartphones!

No not at all, in the slightest.

A lot say snappin here in Wrexham which is regional rather than Welsh. A term from when mining I think.

I totally agree. Wrong tense.

Doesn't make me as mad as 'eating healthy' instead of 'eating healthily' though.

Well this thread is fun but I have to go.
Trying to think of a regional way to say goodbye 🤔
"Ta Ra For Now" maybe?

It's like when people say take out instead of takeaway- boils my piss

Yes. See also "first come, first serve", "worse case scenario" and "a chill morning".

I hate it too

To pack or not to pack.
That is the question.

Will this is what I think it is a pack of lunch 😀

I hate the sound of ‘texted’ and don’t like how it feels in my mouth to say it.

but also know that text in past tense is incorrect so tend to say “I sent you a text” so I don’t have to say texted 🤭

No, that’s just an Americanism working its way into our language.

Cheerio perhaps 🤔 😀

As a linguist, I can confirm that in spoken English, pack lunch would be a normal way to say packed lunch. It’s to do with the unvoiced final consonant of packed /t/ being elided due to the voiced /l/ of lunch.

Edited to add that the /t/ and /l/ also are enunciated with the same (or almost the same) tongue placement, which adds to the tendency to elide the /t/

it is possible to pronounce the final /kt/ of packed but is potentially ‘marked’ in general conversation.
It would irk me if it was written.

I'm from the South West which means I'm a "southerner" too. We had "dinner ladies" at school and they served us "dinner" after the "dinner bell" had rung to mark the start of "dinner time". When school finished we went home and played until it was time for "tea" at "tea time". As a child, the only person I knew who called the evening meal "dinner" was a friend who had a Scottish father and a mother from Belfast.