It's not Mandela effect.
"Yes, I payed him $10, so the debt is paid."
That is the CORRECT, form of the sentence. https://poal.co/static/images/7a72720b639080a0.png
google gemini is wrong. It's payed / paid for the grammatically proper form. That is the Mandela Effect. I have vivid memories of learning this -- pay, payed (financial), payed (nautical), paid -- from being in elementary school and reading a book about a deep sea diver (the payed nautical version) and in class learning verb conjugation. As a young child.
I have never used "payed" before in my life. It just looks wrong to me. Paid all the way.
Pay: verb (past and past participle payed) [with object] Nautical
It's not a Mandela effect, it's still mentioned correctly in all dictionaries.
It's not just correctly used because of the niggerification of the American language.
It's not just correctly used because of the niggerification of the American language.
So much of the English language is exactly that. People don't think it be like that, but it do.
Ugh. Just typing that made my head hurt.