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Discussion on the wireless tonight

what is the past tense of the verb to text and importantly how is it
pronounced.

My slant was 'texted' pronounced with the second t becoming silent i.e.
'texed'. a massive number of people favoured texted pronounced 'text-ted'
with a hard t in the middle. some thought it was still text.


Cheers!

 

Text messaged, or SMS'd.

HTH


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Dnc

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This is, in my view, rather lazy diction

a massive number of people favoured texted pronounced 'text-ted'

This would get my vote. It's certainly the most conventional
construction

This would make you sound French

 

Helpful as normal eh DNC )

 

Both are correct as long as the listener gets the intended meaning. Ignore
the reactionary types who say that text is not a verb. Working with
teenagers, I hear it used as a verb frequently.

English is full of such polyphones: different pronounciations of ear[1],
scone[2] & Shrewsbury[3] are the three I hear most often.

[1] year being a common Welsh variant
[2] I prefer scon rather than cone with an s on the front
[3] my favourite response to someone saying "Shroseburry" is "you don't say
Taming of the fucking Shroe, do you?"

 

Well there isn't a past tense of text. Of course, there will be once the
OED claim it through common useage, which I would guess at "Texted pron:
teks-tid".


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Dnc

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Tex-ted. It's the simplest construct and by far the most likely to be
used. The old "if people understand it then it's correct" test applies,
but tex'ed sounds like you've got a speech impediment and text just
sounds wrong to the ear.

 

Sure you don't mean Texel sheep?

Dassa wun.

There's a lot of iggerint fekkers around.

 

What he said.

 

I always say "I sent [him/her/you] a text" because I don't like using
tex-ted as a verb.

Another thing which grates on me is "e-mails", as in "I got loads of
e-mails". The plural of e-mail is e-mail but it seems I'm a minority with
that one as e-mail has become email and is now taken as a whole new word in
itself.

Si

 

Why would anyone really give a flying ****?

 

"Year tiz"

 

Seems you are as much of an expert on the english language, as changing gear
box bearings...............not that Im surprised!

k