syzygy | noun | the nearly straight-line configuration of three celestial bodies (such as the sun, moon, and earth during a solar or lunar eclipse) in a gravitational system
'Lay' has been used intransitively in the sense of "lie" ('lay' down for a nap) since the 1300s.
The practice was unremarked until around 1770; attempts to correct it have been a fixture of schoolbooks ever since.
So for centuries, no one cared...
then one day someone did.
scroll | noun | a roll (as of papyrus, leather, or parchment) for writing a document
First known use: 15th century
scroll | verb | to move text or graphics up or down or across a display screen as if by unrolling a scroll
First known use: 1973