Doesn't warrant it's own thread but,
What is the correct word for testing in the past tense? It annoys me when people say "i texted you" but i'm now wondering whether it's actually technically correct.
I just use "text" to cover all tenses
"I text you last week"
"I will text you"
It feels like it works better and doesn't make me sound like a *******.
"I texted you last week" is correct.
Adding 'ed' to the end of a word is the standard way to convert the name of an action to the past tense, unless another word exists.
watch and watched
call and called
Exceptions would include
sing and sang
write and wrote
Saying "I text you last week" is grammatically incorrect in the same way that saying "I call you last week" is grammatically incorrect.
Texted is a made up chavism. Correct phrase would be "i sent you a text" text being a colloquial term for text message.
No it isn't. I'd say that using the word "text" in the past tense is more of a 'chavism' than converting it to the word "texted". The word "texted" exists in various respected dictionaries as the past participle of text, in the context of SMS messages.
Saying "I sent you a text" is of course completely fine as well however!
Also whilst i'm at it, why do people add an S to certain shops? "I'm going to Tescos", "I'm going to Asdas". The shops are called Tesco and Asda. It seems to primarily be supermarkets. no one says "I'm going to Burger Kings" or "I'm going to Primarks"
I often wonder this too. It might stem from Sainsbury's. That is the correct spelling because it used to be 'J Sainsbury' many years ago. My Great Aunt and Nan refer to it as "Mr Sainsbury's", and I've heard them say "Mr Tesco's" etc as a jokey call-back.
If that was more common than just within my family, it probably comes from people hearing their parents put a supurfluous S on the end, and picking it up.