Talk:texed

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texed

Typo? Dialect where the /t/ is dropped (in which case it would happen in the lemma as well)? --WikiTiki89 22:12, 7 June 2017 (UTC)

cited I'm surprised. I would have expected this to be a typo where I found it, but it was very easy to find citations, and they use this spelling consistently, so it is not a typo. Go figure. Kiwima (talk) 23:06, 7 June 2017 (UTC)

Is there a backformation "to tex"? DTLHS (talk) 01:37, 8 June 2017 (UTC)

Not as far as I can tell. Even the sources that consistently write "texing" say "to text". Kiwima (talk) 04:40, 8 June 2017 (UTC)

Wow nice. Does it need a context label? --WikiTiki89 15:31, 8 June 2017 (UTC)

@Kiwima: Actually, now that I've gone through the citations, only in one of them was it certainly intentional. In two others, it was almost certainly a typo, and in the one it was not certain but could have easily been a typo. I've organized them at Citations:texed. Also may I ask that if you get quotes from Google Books, to always add the url or pageurl parameter to make it easier to access the source? --WikiTiki89 16:05, 8 June 2017 (UTC)

@Wikitiki89: I note that you have the 2007 Jenny Garza quote listed as very likely a typo, even though she uses "Texed" again later in the same piece. I don't understand your logic. Kiwima (talk) 18:57, 8 June 2017 (UTC)

@Kiwima: Two out of two is not much of a sample size. What I do notice is that on that same page, she haphazardly switches tenses (between would-habitual and simple past), uses send as a past tense, puts an extra space into smile d, and uses the phrase "in specifically". --WikiTiki89 19:04, 8 June 2017 (UTC)

On the other hand, I'm convinced now that this does exist, and am hoping that we can find at least three indisputable uses. --WikiTiki89 19:16, 8 June 2017 (UTC)

To that end, [this] thread seems apropos. Kiwima (talk) 01:30, 9 June 2017 (UTC)

I've added two more citations from the 19th century. I also found that some editions of Shakespeare's Edward III use texed / texèd instead of texted as well (see this and this footnote). There's also this, which has some weird English(?), so I didn't include it in the citations. — justin(r)leung _{{ (t...) | c=› }} 03:28, 9 June 2017 (UTC)

I'm not sure about the older uses, but the modern ones are surely just a misunderstanding or mishearing, possibly based on an inability to pronounce "texted". I question whether "nonstandard" really is strong enough to convey that this is a pretty blatant or glaring error. We need to consider users of the dictionary who may not even understand that "nonstandard" is a euphemism for "incorrect". Mihia (talk) 20:34, 9 June 2017 (UTC)

I think it may be an AAVE pronunciation; see w:African American Vernacular English § Phonology, specifically the part about final consonant clusters, where it says final /st/ is reduced, by dropping of the /t/. Whether it's "incorrect" depends on which dialect or register you happen to be speaking when you use the term. Using tex in General American would certainly be incorrect. — Eru·tuon 20:59, 9 June 2017 (UTC)

• I hear this from British English speakers all the time (overheard on the train and stuff – "text" used uninflected in the past as though it's already a past tense, or "he said he was gonna tex me" and similar). Ƿidsiþ 12:41, 12 June 2017 (UTC)

• Hearing it doesn't provide evidence for the spelling, though. The head of my old school sixth form always said "sikth form"! Equinox ◑ 13:33, 21 June 2017 (UTC)

OK, the cites with "texed" clearly intended is up to three. This is cited Kiwima (talk) 08:29, 23 October 2017 (UTC)

RFV-passed Kiwima (talk) 10:03, 30 October 2017 (UTC)