The past participle of text...

[lalalonglegs]

...is surely texted and not text as many posters would have it. "He has text me" is wrong, wrong, wrong.

It is texted, but just doesn't roll off the tongue so easily!

Really? It sounds so much more natural to me than dropping the "-ed".

Don't get me started - one of my particular bugbears. Yes, it's 'texted'

And how much harder is it to say 'I texted him' than 'I wanted that' or 'I needed this'?

Definitely "texted".

I sometimes feel I am fighting a losing battle when it comes to things like this. And the near ubiquitous use of "of" in place of "have".

When a noun becomes a verb, the very least we can do is at least make it a regular verb. Why would anyone try to make it irregular.?

Agree it is texted. Whenever someone says "text" as the past tense I always visualise the word as "texed" (as in "she texed me this morning") and wince internally.

I'm not accepting this as a verb. I'll continue to send text messages when necessary. The past tense is therefore "I sent a text message."

Go American and say "SMS-ed" me instead! I dislike "text" as the past participle, seems lazy to me, but it's getting very common now and as texting is a relatively new concept in the grand linguistic scheme of things, maybe it's a instance in which language should be allowed to evolve to the point where the most widely used variant becomes the officially correct one.

I agree it should be "sent a text" as opposed to "texted" but rather "texted" than "text as a past participle! It makes me die a little inside.

DD tells me that she "messaged" me. That's just wrong.
Agree it should be texted.

Isn't treefiddy using the word "text" as and adjective in the sentence "I sent a text message" in which "text" modifies the the noun "message". The way I see it is the only verb in that sentence is the transitive verb "sent". Am I missing something?