Poll Results 136

Here was the question:

Which word is used incorrectly here? "While I spent over two years querying agents and small presses, my manuscript laid dormant."

"While"	4 (5%)
"Over"	3 (4%)
"Laid"	46 (65%)
More than one is incorrect.	9 (12%)
The sentence is just fine as is.	8 (11%)

The pesky verb "to lie" is the source of the error here. The simple past tense of "to lie" is "lay"; the past participle of "to lie" is "laid."