Gray or Grey?

[abarrach]

zingebar

I thought it was a British thing, but then the settlements in the USA were a result of angry British people. In New Zealand, you spell it 'grey'.

Changing the spelling of words... yet another act of rebellion rolleyes  

[Flan De Leche]

abarrach

Wolfie Kid

Yes, that seems the obvious one, but all my friends say it's 'Grey'. I'm not sure if it's spelt differently in the US, or something, as in TV shows, it's spelt like that. But.... oh, I don't know.

The "Grey" in the TV show (and the book from which it stole the title) "Grey's Anatomy" refers to a person's name.

Not really.....if you look on crayons like Crayola, it says grey.  

[The MoUsY spell-checker]

s0prano42_x3

I prefer spelling it "grey," but my Firefox spell checker doesn't like that. stressed

But I prefer the American "favorite" and "color." It just seems more correct to me.

Why not download another dictionary if you don't like the one you have?

Then again, I don't think there's one where they spell "favorite" and "color" but "grey".

Shedra Helix

Grey is a name gray is a color.

I'm sure that someone told me "grey" is a colour and "Gray" is a name before, so there are probably people with either of these as a name.  

[~Winter Roses~]

Woodnut

I've always, for whatever reason, preferred "grey." I would probably use "gray" in writing assignments though, because I've always assumed it was the standard American spelling.

I checked my old dictionary (from the 1930s), and it lists them together as "gray, grey." "Grey" then has its own entry where it specifies, "this spelling of the word is the usual form in England." But since they're listed together in both old and modern dictionaries, I guess either could be considered correct.

Yes, I do perfer "grey" as well, for some reason, but always spell it "gray" for assignments. I guess I just got used to spelling it that way because of my teachers. :/  

[-l- Eli -l-]

zingebar

Silverkleptofox

There's anothe word like that: judgement and judgment. Both are correct, but I prefer judgement, and grey as well. It just seems more elegant.

I think judgment is used in more of a legal sense.

No... "Judgment" was the original, correct spelling... but it's been spelled wrong so much by so many that the extra "e" has become acceptable. However, it is still a secondary spelling, as even if you look up "judgement" in a dictionary, the examples underneath it still use "judgment." ( http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/judgement ) Hmm... One source also says that the extra "e" spelling is more British, though... so maybe I have it backwards, you know how we Americans love to screw up spelling. wink  

[Captain Purpleheart]

I don't think it matters, it's probably just a matter of whether you're British or American. I always spelled it grey, though.  

[Kairi_12]

I'm pretty sure it's "gray."  

[Doppelgaanger]

I don't know.

I've always thought that 'grey' was British and that 'gray' was American...

'Cause my computer will say 'grey' is incorrectly spelled when I'm using an American spell checker, but when I change it to English (U.K.) it says 'gray' is wrong....  

[Doppelgaanger]

chiyojo

zingebar

Silverkleptofox

There's anothe word like that: judgement and judgment. Both are correct, but I prefer judgement, and grey as well. It just seems more elegant.

I think judgment is used in more of a legal sense.

No... "Judgment" was the original, correct spelling... but it's been spelled wrong so much by so many that the extra "e" has become acceptable. However, it is still a secondary spelling, as even if you look up "judgement" in a dictionary, the examples underneath it still use "judgment." ( http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/judgement ) Hmm... One source also says that the extra "e" spelling is more British, though... so maybe I have it backwards, you know how we Americans love to screw up spelling. wink

Well, technically, isn't American derived from English?  

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I've always used grey even though I've never really liked British spellings, i.e. colour, favourite, etc.

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