# What Is The Past Tense Of "Text"?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-past-tense-of-text/551814>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [August 28, 2010, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-past-tense-of-text/551814 "2010-08-28T18:28:12Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
**Page:** 2

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![Paintcharge](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/paintcharge/32/7946_2.png) [@Paintcharge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paintcharge)\
**Post date:** [August 30, 2010, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-past-tense-of-text/551814/21 "2010-08-30T18:53:03Z")

</div>

Texted is what is used. Sent a text is correct.

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![panman\_1960](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/919ad9/32.png) [@panman\_1960](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panman_1960)\
**Post date:** [August 31, 2010, 2:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-past-tense-of-text/551814/22 "2010-08-31T14:01:05Z")

</div>

> [@Giles](#):
>
> > [@suranyi](#):
> >
> > Clearly, “texted”.
> > 
> > New verbs are always regular unless there’s an obvious analogous irregular verb.
> 
> This.
> 
> > [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](#):
> >
> > Tex’d. 🙂
> 
> And not this. “Tex’d” would be the past tense of a verb “tex”, which fortunately does not exist.

Unless it was a new positon like “Cowgirl”!

[Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-past-tense-of-text/551814.md?page=1)