To lie (intransitive: lies, lay, has lain) means to recline; to lay (transitive: lays, laid, has laid) means to set down; to lie (intransitive: lies, lied, has lied) means to fib.
Those who live on Oahu are not shy about correcting mainlanders -- it's HO-no-lu-lu, they say, and OO-koo-lay-lay.
The ukulele (pronounced oo-koo-LAY-lay in its native Hawaii) is enjoying one of its periodic surges in popularity, said Nuni Walsh, a director of the Ukulele Hall of Fame Museum (a largely virtual institution, consisting of a group of devotees in several states and their ukes).
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The once Zen-like Ken, now in charge of accounts with Pete in La-La land and Roger in lay-lay land, isn't coping well.
I used to work in a bar called Pilgrim in Liverpool and I'd put Lay Lady Lay on the jukebox every morning when I was cleaning the bar and this gorgeous, treacly, chocolatey voice would just seep into me.
Lay, not laid, for the past tense of lie.
"He laid back, I laid back.
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