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How the hell do you spell the word grey?
- Thread starter Clydefrog
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Was just about to post basically the same thing. That's the way I've tended to use it, at least.
Is "grey" not as common in the U.S.? I'm American; I've only spelled it with an "e." Am I being accidentally pretentious (as opposed to intentionally, which I fully admit to being once in a while)?
Feeling skeptical about that list since I've never spelled "idyll" as "idyl" either.
People who spell it as, "gray," probably also say words like Platypuses and pronounce pillow as, "pellow."
Pretty much.
British vs American.
I write British English, being a European.
And Europeans would naturally gravitate towards that.
Filthy American!
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For the color I've always assumed grey to be the British spelling and gray to be the correct one.
Names can be either way, obviously.
Names can be either way, obviously.
I'm from the US, I use both. Mostly because I can never remember (or really care) which is the US spelling VS which is the British/Canadian spelling. They both seem equal to me. And for me, I don't feel that way about the US vs British spelling of ANY other words.
But yeah. "Grey" and "Gray" are equal to me.
I attribute my sense of equality for the spellings of both "Grey" and "Gray" to my sets of crayons when I was a little kid. I remember as a little kid, some of my crayons would be labeled "gray", and others would be labeled "grey". ...I wonder if I had Canadian crayons mixed in with my US crayons? I was close enough to the border that we went to Canada all the time, so it's possible.
But yeah. "Grey" and "Gray" are equal to me.
I attribute my sense of equality for the spellings of both "Grey" and "Gray" to my sets of crayons when I was a little kid. I remember as a little kid, some of my crayons would be labeled "gray", and others would be labeled "grey". ...I wonder if I had Canadian crayons mixed in with my US crayons? I was close enough to the border that we went to Canada all the time, so it's possible.
....Okay? Thanks for the random counterexample? I wasn't trying to claim it was any hard and fast rule, just what I personally tend to go with. In practical use they're pretty much interchangeable anyway.
I use both.
But in my own mind, gray is a cool/blueish gray, where grey is a warm/brownish grey.
But in my own mind, gray is a cool/blueish gray, where grey is a warm/brownish grey.