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Anonymous Posted 16 years ago
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Laid or layed

If you made a pattern with a bunch of stick on the ground, where they laid out or layed out?
  

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laid out "Layed" may be a British spelling, but to the best of my knowledge, it's obsolete. I have it on my master word list, but it's not in my Am Htg dictionary. " I've seen it used for the thing they do to people in Hawaii, but I think that's a misspelling too.

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  • laid out "Layed" may be a British spelling, but to the best of my knowledge, it's obsolete.
  • I have it on my master word list, but it's not in my Am Htg dictionary.
  • " I've seen it used for the thing they do to people in Hawaii, but I think that's a misspelling too.
  • Edit.
  • Actually, "laid" is the simple past tense for all three persons, singular and plural.
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laid out

"Layed" may be a British spelling, but to the best of my knowledge, it's obsolete.

I have it on my master word list, but it's not in my Am Htg dictionary.

"Laid" is both the simple past (3rd singular) and the past participle of the transitive verb "to lay."

I've seen it used for the thing they do to people in Hawaii, but I think that's a
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