Lost Mail

Received a $60 lot of stamps mailed to me within Australia that took 8 months to arrive.

The seller of the stamps was amazed as you could imagine.

And yes I have now payed for them.

I am still waiting for a letter I posted in Cairo, March 2013, to be delivered to its destination in Kazakhstan. Your post makes me a bit more optimistic :-)

How about Miriam McMichael's Letter Arrives 83 Years Late
http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/video/mir...ate-24407359

Received a very poor internal email because I spelt payed instead of paid. Sorry teacher.




Get a grip Pal.

Payed and paid are both correct, it is just that paid tends to be the more common usage. Certainly where Microsoft is concerned. But I guess I can live with that.

Terry

Thanks TC.

While I appreciate TC's generosity of spirit - most especially when it is directed at me but, in truth, when it is directed at others, as well ...

"Payed" is an acceptable & correct spelling of the past and past participle of a different word.

Paid = money changed hands

Payed = deck/hull of a wooden ship was tarred/sealed.

Our mindless spell-check software does not recognize context and, therefor, approves of both.

Clearly, KGVC should have payed more attention when reading Nelson's The Life Of Nelson.

Cheers,

/s/ ikeyPikey

And Nelson should have paid more attention to the risk from armed Frenchmen aloft. Yes, the past tense and past participle of pay is payed. Still in use as a nautical term as in 'payed out rope, anchor chain' and so on. But payed was also used historically as in the settlement of a bill or debt, modern form paid. Origin from some sources is the Old French 'peier or payer', to appease or satisfy (a creditor). Both forms are correct, but the modern form has mostly put paid to the former use.

Terry

Hi,
In 1975, I spent 6 weeks in Manhattan, working at Mobil Oil headquarters across the street from the Chrysler building. I was housed at the Biltmore hotel (the Sinatra sang about). Man, what an experience that was! Anyway, I bought a bunch of fancy postcards and penned them to all the friends/relatives I could. I mailed them over a few week period, dropping them down the hotel's mail slot.

None of them ever arrived, and I caught heck from more than a few folks. Putting them in the "slot" was a dumb move on my part, for they probably joined goodness knows what all stuck in there below.

The hotel was torn down a few years ago, and I suspect all my postcards with it......................

A friend of mine was on an expedition ship six years ago to Antarctica, South Georgia and Tristan da Cunha. He sent me cards from each location, but the Tristan da Cunha one never arrived...

I sent myself a postcard from India in 2007. I am still waiting for that one to arrive.