"text" = pp of "tex"

[Ben Zimmer]

On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 1:29 PM, Ben Zimmer wrote:
>
> On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 1:21 PM, Arnold Zwicky wrote:
>>
>> http://arnoldzwicky.org/2008/12/25/whats-the-past-tense-of-the-verb-text/
>
> I also wrote about this in '09:
>
> http://www.visualthesaurus.com/cm/wordroutes/mailbag-friday-texted/
>
> At the time, I didn't think it was likely that /tɛkst/ would win out
> as the past-tense form, but since then I've heard it used an awful
> lot.

And see John Wells, also from '09 (his predictive powers were better than mine):

http://phonetic-blog.blogspot.com/2009/10/texting.html

--bgz

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