Comment on is it spelled "grey" or "gray"?

TheFermentalist@reddthat.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• Codpiece@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  E is English. A is American.

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  • quick_snail@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    This makes the Scottish very mad

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    • Codpiece@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      The Scottish want to claim something English as theirs? When did that start?

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  • Kalothar@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Are you being like pedantic or just trying to make it more simple?

    (Otherwise North America and specially the United States have the majority of English speakers in the world, so there is a realistic distinction between U.K. / European English and American English and both are equally correct evolutions of their English roots )

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    • quill7513@anarchist.nexus ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      it’s a mnemonic to help people remember, not pedantry

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    • akwd169@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      English as in England, the country

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      • Codpiece@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

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    • Codpiece@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      I don’t know why you’re getting downvoted either.

      To answer your question it’s neither and both. I can appreciate it might seem pedantic from an American point of view, but not from ours. It’s our language, created here and named after us, it doesn’t require the British/European prefix. It is simply English.

      American, Canadian and Australian English should have suffixes as simpler variations of the default.

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    • MrScottyTay@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Sadly because of learning materials and the media, a lot of mainland Europeans that learn English often learn American English mannerisms. I remember in college there was a girl everyone thought was American to begin with but she just happened to be Spanish.

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    • ohulancutash@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Only if we’re very inclusive in our definition of “English”.

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• adespoton@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  . . . Unless you’re in the majority of the English speaking world, which includes India, Canada, Australia and New Zealand.

  Of course, grey is the appropriate spelling for all of those but Canada, which uses both.

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  • squirrel@cake.kobel.fyi ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Canada, which uses both

    græy /s

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    • TrickDacy@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      That looks awesome though

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    • Uranus_Hz@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      “Both” in Canada is Gray and Gris

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    • aeronmelon@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      That’s what Seal’s rose was on.

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  • Nioxic@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Canadas english is weird

    Especially when it comes to measurements (weight, volume, mass, temperature)

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    • adespoton@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      What’s wrong with Canada’s weights and measures?

      Everything is in SI units.

      Unless you’re cooking, where heat is in Fahrenheit, solid measures are in cups teaspoons and tablespoons (but liquids are in litres and weights are in grams).

      Or in construction, where you work in feet and yards. Or measuring a person’s height.

      But while someone might be 6’ tall, their stride length will be in metres, as will their arm span.

      So yeah; simple. It’s not like Canada has tons of people weighing in tonnes.

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      • Rentlar@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        A “Pint” of beer served commercially in Canada must be 20 imperial (UK) ounces (aka ~568 mL), with a 2.5% margin of error permitted within the law, unlike a US pint (16 US fl oz ~473mL).

        Just for fun, “Une pinte” of alcohol in French served commercially is “a quart” of alcohol in English which is double that value.

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      • Holytimes@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Canada said fuck it we use what makes the most sense for the scope and scale at hand. And then cherry picked everything.

        Unironically if you get your head out of your fucking ass for two seconds and stop being a fan boy for measurement systems.

        Canada has arguably the best worst solution! Its fantastic! And awful! I love it.

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      • jqubed@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        My in-laws in Quebec get weighed in pounds

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    • otter@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      No need to downvote this comment

      Even canadians agree that we have a weird mix of different systems in play

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    • nondescripthandle@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Hey at least you’re not still measuring weight in stone. Nothing makes me roll my eyes quicker. Oh you’re ten stone? How neat im 2 boulder and 3 pebble.

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  • Venator@lemmy.nz ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Also depends if it’s someone’s last name… 😅

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    • adarza@piefed.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      henry gray, the author of the iconic medical text.

      albert grey, former governor general (ca). the grey cup (cfl championship game and trophy) takes its name from him.

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  • fizzle@quokk.au ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Australia uses both, but grey is “correct”.

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  • Zwuzelmaus@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Canada, which uses both.

    Is it Caneda then, or Cenada?

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    • myster0n@feddit.nl ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

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• tyler@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Americans spell it whatever way they want.

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  • DebatableRaccoon@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Yup. Their freedom bone twitches otherwise.

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• OwOarchist@pawb.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  But in certain circumstances, the Europeans will still use it with an a. Specifically, when referring to the color of a horse.

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  • TheFermentalist@reddthat.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Wasn’t aware of that

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