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

fullsquare@awful.systems ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

• lonefighter@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  This is correct, but for some reason in my head I think of gray as warm toned (like with yellow or brown undertones) and grey as cool toned (like with blue or purple undertones).

  I have no idea why my brain has decided this is the way.

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  • zakobjoa@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    What?! It’s exactly the opposite, obviously!

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  • MajorasTerribleFate@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    You say this, and while I have never considered it in these terms before, it is obviously true to me.

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• nonentity@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  gray - 🇺🇸 english (simplified)

  grey - 🇬🇧 english (traditional)

  gr*y - 🇦🇺 english (explicit)

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• trackball_fetish@lemmy.wtf ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I’m splitting hairs but I always read grey - 🇨🇦 english (eh)

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• Cethin@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Fun fact: southern Americans speak English more traditionally than anyone else. The British have fucked up the pronunciation so hard at this point. Their spelling is typically more traditional though, yeah.

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  • Kobibi@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    People say this a lot but it’s just not true

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    • Cethin@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      That doesn’t actually say that it isn’t the closest to a classical British accent. It only says it’s diverged from the modern one. Yeah, it isn’t the same as the classical British accent, but I believe it preserves more of the characteristics than other English accents have. They’ve all diverged, but some less than others.

      IIRC, there’s an island that’s very isolated in the US who’s accent is as close as possible to a classic British accent, but it’s a population of maybe a few dozen people, if that even at this point.

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  • quick_snail@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Due to brain damage

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  • Codpiece@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    No, it’s evolved unlike American that had to be simplified for the general population.

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