People saying pack lunch instead of packed lunch

[tiredtiredd]

This makes me irrationally angry

I feel like that’s quite a recent thing.

Yes, I agree. Irritatingly widespread now though.

Bizarre as it sounds, I would be happier with ‘I need to go Tescoing’. That would make more sense to me.

Bait box is worse. I’m in the north east and loads of people call it that. Horrible term

Never heard of pack up (Scotland) packed lunch or piece here

Its definitely meant to be a "packed" lunch, like if you have "packed" your toothbrush or "packed" your suitcase for a weekend away, you have "PACKED" your lunch for a trip out or to eat at school.

Me too! Glad to know I’m not alone in this.

Reminiscent of fishing bait…. 🪱

It’s just begging for some disgusting misunderstandings, isn’t it?

Pack lunch v packed lunch is a minor issue compared to a PP on this thread whose response included “them days”, surely!! 🤣

Agree! Pack is a verb, pack lunch is an instruction, or (as a pp said) a group lunchtime get-together for a bunch of Brownies. The correct expression is packed lunch.

Who cares

I will see your 'pack' lunch amd raise you a 'mash potato'.

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Up in Yorkshire I say pack up too.

That was me 😂
Them days....you know when it was all fields around here.
AKA "back in my day".

In the regions it’s used, it is!

Depending on what mood I'm in it can be a packed lunch, a pack up, bait or snap.

Well your theory is completely wrong

It may be "regional" but it's still incorrect, the same as needs fed or needs changed when it should be needs to be fed or needs to be changed.

Honestly - that was what I was thinking. There’s plenty more in important things in life to get irritated and angry about. Other people’s use of language is pretty low on the list of priorities.

As long as they don't say they're taking their pack lunch because they need to loose weight, I'm fine.

It's not incorrect for that region. My grandparents always said pack lunch, they where born in the 1910s. Something that has been said this way for so long is not incorrect.

OMG I have just remembered that we did this too!

I think my elderly relatives from NW used to say bait and bait box for packed lunch/ lunch box. I thought it was to do with taking your sandwiches with you in your bait box when going for a day fishing. But no one was going fishing and our packed lunches were just for work or school.

I think I probably say “pack’ lunch” but in my head I’m saying “packed lunch”. It’s shortened a bit in the pronunciation.

The one I hate and makes me want to rampage is “half term” as a general term for any school holiday. So Easter, Christmas and summer holidays all getting called “half term”. AARGH. I work in a woke charity sector that supports schools and I think it’s possibly coming from people not wanting to use Christian focussed names maybe?? But also I’ve noticed parents at my DC school doing it. Dreadful.

Yeah, you’re right, that works ok 😄 I quite like verbing words.