The Grammarphobia Blog: Much ado about texting
www.grammarphobia.com › blog › 2013Jul 09, 2013 · American Heritage, for example, lists the past tense of “text” as “text·ed,” indicating that the word has two syllables. As for us, we pronounce “texted” as TEXT-ed, and we’ve never heard it pronounced otherwise. The linguist Arnold Zwicky shed some light on “texted” in a blog post he wrote on the subject in 2008.