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If you lay a table or an egg, or you lay something down, the past tense is laid.
That's why Pinterest was invented, as an ever-shifting moodboard on which we can collectively tweak the specifics of how to lay a table, or pack a suitcase, or go on holiday.
lay (a table, an egg, put something down), past tense laid lied German musical setting for a poem, plural lieder Liège but the adjective is Liégeois lifeguard, lifejacket, lifelong, lifesize lift Do not use as a verb to mean increase; the headline "Bank should lift interest rate next month" suggests that the Bank is going to remove interest rates altogether lightbulb lightening or lightning?
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