[QUOTE=MaydayMark;2138735]Payed? Maybe that's how the Memphis School System teaches spelling?

(Sorry ... I couldn't resist).



Paid is the standard past tense and participle of pay. Payed was historically used for the nautical senses of pay and in the phrasal verb pay out where what’s payed out is rope. The form still appears occasionally, but paid now prevails even in payed‘s traditional uses.

A "week" attempt at a rebuttal.