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[personal profile] cema
Sunday, January 17th, 2010 03:39 am
Pay - paid, not payed
Play - played, not plaid

Is that a rule or an exception? (This being English, may not be that different.)
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Collins English Dictionary

[identity profile] meskhi.livejournal.com
Sunday, January 17th, 2010 10:10 am (UTC)
play comes from [Old English plega (n.), plegan (vb.); related to Middle Dutch pleyen

pay comes from Old French payer

by the way, the second meaning of pay - Nautical. to caulk (the seams of a wooden vessel) with pitch or tar

has past tense payed

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