Grammar

Me too, Bellanonna!

Surely if the verb is to "text" , the past tense is "texted"?

So that is 3 of us at least

I always say 'texted' too.

Moi aussi!

And me. "Text" is not the past tense of "text".

And me! Young people today -mutter mutter mutter

'I say 'texted' DD Insists it's 'text'. A minor disagreement often ensues.

I carry on in my own sweet way, just to annoy her really.

Guilty of using text rather than texted even though I accept that texted is grammatically correct.
As it's not a word I would use in an important letter I don't care !

'Texted' here too!

I get round it by saying 'I sent a text' as both text and texted sound wrong to me!

To be really pedantic, text is a noun not a verb. That's why it's so difficult to conjugate.
Having said that it will probably get into the Oxford dictionary as a verb soon - just googled and it's already there!

DD says 'he text me', but always agrees with me that it's grammatically incorrect. Difficult habit to break, I imagine, especially when you hear everyone else using that form. But I'm a pedant, so I always say 'he texted me'. For that matter, when I'm texting someone, I always use proper grammar and punctuation, including capital letters where needed. Plenty of people don't

Oh that's all very reassuring.
Tricia F we do make verbs from nouns, as in comb, brush etc, so there needs to be a word for texting methinks
And Ash Tree - yes, I tend to punctuate in texts too. If that makes us pedants, then so be it!
Thanks for all the comments

He sent me a text, surely?

I do that too, Ash Tree - I wish I didn't have such a compulsion to do so as it's so time-consuming!

Well I must be in a minority on here because I never text. We haven't got a gadget like that.

I don't know how to text [have never sent one]...

I say 'I sent a text' or 'he sent me a text' never texted its sounds all wrong- is there a verb to text? or is a text a noun?

When we use 'text' as a verb we are, according to this grammarian, 'verbing'.

Yes - I don't like ' he gifted me' either - 'a gift' is a noun. This 'verbing' sounds so clunky on the ear- yes I know clunky is probably not a word but it describes what I mean- awkward and just wrong.

The other example of 'verbing' that I dislike but which seems to have become acceptable since 2012 is 'medal' used as a verb - 'x medalled twice at the Olymics'. It's just a lazy way of saying 'won a medal'.

'Authoured' is another one that drives me mad.
When did people stop writing!

Also people who can't spell very well.