Originally Posted By: SweetLoretta
I have a question concerning the past tense of text (as in text messaging). Text used to be a noun, but now it seems to be gaining currency as a verb


It's been a verb since 1599:

NASHE Lenten Stuffe (1871) 15 A chronographical Latin table..in a fair text hand, texting unto us, how, in the sceptredom of Edward the Confessor, the sands first began to grow into sight at low water.

SHAKES. Much Ado V. i. 185 Yea and text vnder-neath, heere dwells Benedicke the married man.

DEKKER Wh. of Babylon Wks. 1873 II. 265 Vowes haue I writ so deepe,..So texted them in characters capitall, I cannot race them.

Last edited by goofy; 12/23/2008 2:44 AM.