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- verb archaic Simple past tense and past participle of
lay .
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November 1st, 2007 at 2: 22 pm wwbd says: true story: there’s this one time, where i just threw out this random post. copying someone else’s exact format. there in layed the funny part, but then some troll came about and starting calling me incorrect ajdectives. so what did i do?
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Of course that bad grammar can ony be detected in witten communications since the pronunciations of "layed" and "laid" are roughly the same.
BBspot 2009
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I understand that more than once, when his gunners got tired, he 'layed' the gun himself -- not part of an officer's work, perhaps -- but he's a very sound youngster, and I should like to get him something. "
Pushed and the Return Push George Herbert Fosdike Nichols
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When 9/11 happened, we ALL layed down party afflilation and supported President Bush.
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Congress will argue that the penalty is layed and collected on income and thus exempt from apportionment.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Is the Health Care Mandate a Direct Tax? 2010
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You're nuts. 2010 is when the GOP will be layed to rest.
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The people that are unemployed due to their own reasons, not by being layed off, or by businesses going under ... are these people entitled to free healthcare, or should the hard working people like myself have to cut back on food and or other necessities to pay for their coverage???
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What about the 10 police officers that are going to be layed off or the rotating closings of fire stations each week?
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But it is also layed against and collected on income.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Health insurance mandate as a privacy right violation 2010
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Congress will argue that the penalty is layed and collected on income and thus exempt from apportionment.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Is the Health Care Mandate a Direct Tax? 2010
mager commented on the word layed
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February 11, 2007
ruzuzu commented on the word layed
Found under "lay" in the OSPD3: "LAY v LAID, or LAYED, LAYING, LAYS to deposit as a wager."
June 15, 2010