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The whole argument over whether something is a word or not is pointless. The point of language is to communicate ideas. The idea of past tense of the word "pay" is conveyed either way you spell it. I hate when people get super technical about grammar and words, as long as other people understand what you are trying to convey the language works.
@SEoF: This is silly, but I couldn't help but reply to that. So Shakespeare and the translators of the King James Version of the Christian Bible were Americans? It is English-English. It is Old English. You are correct that it was an unintentional misspelling since "paid" is far more widely used, but to say it is not grammatically correct is simply not true.
I guess it comes down to the version of English, either English-English (based on Oxford English Dictionary) where it is not accepted, or American-English.
I was as surprised as anyone when I learned that this is actually a legitimate alternate spelling. However, this seems to be a well-accepted fact going back to Old English.
@SEoF: I'm sorry. But do some more research. Every dictionary I've checked has this as a proper spelling. And it is NOT a new word by any means. It even appears multiple times in the KJV of the Christian Bible.
