Grammar

Another pet hate of mine is using 'action' as a verb. It's very common in the business world, but it really grates with me. Why not use 'deal with', 'carry out', 'act on/upon' etc.

I also cringe at 'He text me'.

Several years ago, there was a discussion about this on the WordReference forum, and opinion was divided. I do remember reading one so-called academic link that promoted the use of 'text', but justifying it in a way that I didn't agree with - something about verbs that end in 't' forming their past tense with a 'd', (things like bend, lend, sent) if I remember rightly. I remember shouting at the screen, something along the lines of 'but text doesn't end in 'd'!

At the very least, I would have to insist on spelling it 'texed' (or something like that) in an attempt to make my brain accept it as a (remote) possibility!

I'm too old to change now anyway, so no matter what others say, I will continue to use 'texted'

Another vote for "texted" here. DDIL uses "text" as the past tense and it always grates on me.

It's texted. Must be.

On the subject of using nouns as verbs, what about 'breakfasted'? Perhaps we should not be too pedantic about the habit as it has been around for a while - using nouns as verbs, that is, not eating breakfast.

Not the best ''texter'' in the world, am inclined to put wrong letters in and take too long, and as for predictive spelling, it drives me mad!

And we probably all say googled...?

NotTooOld since the verb part of the compound word breakfast is 'break', we should be saying 'brokefast', but it does sound so terribly quaint to our modern ears, as to be almost laughable

Surely there are nouns that are unarguably verbs too? I'm sure I remember being taught this at school over 60 ( gulp) years ago? What about walk, talk etc. we wouldn't say "I took a walk to school". And the Google verb is an example of where it would be clumsy to avoid "verbing" it ?