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john2tzh | 04:29 Mon 10th Dec 2007 | Arts & Literature
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The past tense of paying a bill is paid. Is it the same for paying out a line or is that payed? Just to settle an arguement, thanks.
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'Payed' is the norm in the nautical sense.
And when you've weighed your anchor, do you get under weigh - or under way? You do, of course, have way on, not weigh on.
'Under weigh' is used but wrong. It is wrong because of the very confusion you refer to, Aqua. That is, it a misassociation.
I've seen under weigh in 19th-century writing; I wonder if anything so persistent can really be called an error. But it's seldom around these days anyway - the modern variation is to write underway rather than under way, and while this is still rare enough to be called erroneous I suspect it will be normal in another 20 years. Perhaps people do it by association with anyway, motorway, undertake - I don't know.
And there's only one 'e' in 'argument'

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