Payed or PAid

Butrflynet, are you poking fun at our Slappy?

Now 'Hooked on Ebonics' states that "I need to get paid" is actually "I gots to get paid." Go figure...Canajuns still write cheques.

as a confirmed 'Oxford' user i can pronounce that payed (and layed) r not in the Oxford, therefore unacceptable in Britain, and Canada.

so you can be paid for a job well done; an egg can be laid for tomorrow's breakfast, or a body can be laid in its coffin, in the Anglo world quite properly; but u can only get 'layed' in America!

payed paid
Paid always, except payed in the sense of letting out rope:

I paid attention as the sailor payed out the rope.

Paid is used as an adjective...like a "paid" bill. Payed is past tense.If you say "I payed the bill yesterday", that would be correct.

Im sure over time both are acceptable, though. But if we want to nitpick, that's the CORRECT answer.

Now let's argue about "theater" vs. "theatre". I actually LOST a spelling bee in 3rd grade because i spelled it the "American" way. After they said I misspelled it, to which I replied, "yeah, in ENGLAND".