English is weird. I meant "it's not true that there are 26 pay periods every year, because years have more than 52 weeks, which means there must be a 'leap pay

English is weird. I meant "it's not true that there are 26 pay periods every year, because years have more than 52 weeks, which means there must be a 'leap pay-period'" every once in a while." But your interpretation was entirely valid based on the way I typed mine.