texted

[Joel S. Berson]

At 3/11/2009 07:47 PM, Wilson Gray wrote:
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>The first time that I heard "texted," on some TV drama or other, I
>thought, Interesting. The double-ED PST is moving up in the world. And
>I hadn't noticed that it was at all common, even among among
>working-class white people. But it soon struck me that, since the word
>is _text_, the PST *has* to be _texted_.
>
>Now, _texted_ feels *correct* to me, though not quite *right*.

Feels correct and right to me.  And 'texed" would mean "put something
into the Tex language (of Donald Knuth).

Joel

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