Friday, November 19, 2010

Text - English editing.

At the moment there seems to be no agreement on which the ‘correct’ form for the verb text in the past tense: text or texted. Text, as in I text but you didn’t reply is often heard, but texted is also used, and is found in writing. If no text is a regular verb, like love, then texted is the correct past tense and participle. However, people may be treating it as an irregular verb, like put, with the same past form as the present, perhaps influenced by the fact that text sounds like a past participle, as though it were ‘texted’. It will be interesting to see which form wins out in long run.
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