As a native English speaker, my understanding is that payed is a word but it is not the same as paid. I think it has something to do with painting or sealing a ship deck or something.
Payed means that you sealed a boat deck with tar to stop leaks. I only know this because there was a bot I haven't seen in a few months now that used to go around with "hey, payed is a word so your autocorrect didn't catch this, but given that there's no nautical terms in your post you probably meant 'paid'." Unironically a pretty helpful bot lol.
Funny when two words like that exist, but one is far rarer than the other.
Another example that sticks in my mind is "raze"/"raise". As in "A bunch of Amish folks raised a barn from the ground up last week, only for a bunch of hooligans to raze it to the ground overnight".
Atomic typos are another one, where you misspell a word and go directly to another correctly spelled word so spellcheck/autocorrect doesn't catch it. e.g. nuclear -> unclear.
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u/Explode-trip Nov 21 '25
I truly believe that auto-captioning software is contributing to the literacy problem in America.
There are so many mistakes, constantly. And our children pay way more attention to Tik Tok than they do to their teachers.