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Gray or Grey?



Gray or Grey?

Gray.
3
13%
Grey.
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Sun Feb 19, 2006 10:35 pm
Rei says...



I'm no expert, but some of the spellings (which are not entirely phonetic as we would wish our language to be) may also be remnants of French spelling, since English was originally formed by combining Anglo-Saxon and French.
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Sun Feb 19, 2006 10:42 pm
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Nate wrote:Bah! English spelling stinks! There is no 'u' anywhere in color.

But I'm with the grey caucus on this issue. Not sure why, but gray just does not look right. Probably for the same reason I spell 'defense' as 'defence' and often spell words that have a 'z' with a 's' instead; the Economist and Financial Times. It's too bad the US does not have any good news mags...

But I will never ever spell color with a 'u.' And women should be spelled wimmin.


I have to go with you here. I mean, I love the simplicity of American spelling (after all, remember, we *were* the ones who came up with the dictionary!) but yet... gray just doesn't look right to me, and the more I think about word choicing and everything, it just appears to be more awkward.

So... es interesante...
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Mon Feb 20, 2006 6:31 am
Zelithan says...



grey!
and i don't care if it is english or american. grey just looks good. e beats a!
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Mon Feb 20, 2006 9:56 am
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How about this Gray for a name of someone and Grey as the colour, cause Gray like this looks better as a name of someone. Then both parties win. :D
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Mon Feb 20, 2006 10:24 am
Firestarter says...



after all, remember, we *were* the ones who came up with the dictionary!


What? That's just plain wrong.

Technically the first "dictionary" is thousands of years old.

If we are talking about modern accepted versions, Samuel Johnson's dictionary in 1755 (before America properly existed ...) came way before Webster's of 1806.
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Mon Feb 20, 2006 7:55 pm
sabradan says...



I live in America, but use a combination of British and American spelling. I use "grey", but not "colour" "armour" or anything of that sort. But I do spell defence "defence" and that sort of thing. What can I say, I'm weird.
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Mon Feb 20, 2006 8:04 pm
Sponson Light says...



Theiur spelluing of colour and armour is weuird.
hau.


I actually use both gray and grey.
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Wed Feb 22, 2006 6:20 am
Fishr says...



I've always been taught to use 'gray' by teachers. It's automatic for me to spell it this way when I'm typing.

Grey<= Too awkward to use, let alone typing it. :?
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