is it spelled "grey" or "gray"?

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• gegil@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Gray is a color, while grey is a colour.

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  • AA5B@lemmy.world ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Gray is the color of aluminum, grey is the colour of aluminium

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  • Holytimes@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I like mixing American and British spells to piss assholes off who have nothing better to do then attack people for their spelling choices.

    Its very fun.

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    • TrickDacy@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Than*

      It’s not British to just use the wildly-wrong word… That’s just missing words.

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    • allywilson@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      piss assholes off

      piss off assholes

      ;-)

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    • SethranKada@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Seems you succeeded, keep up the good work!

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    • Glytch@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      *arseholes

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    • Primor@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      *essholas

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  • Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Fantastic!

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• fullsquare@awful.systems ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  grey - 🇬🇧 english (traditional)

  gray - 🇺🇸 english (simplified)

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  • lonefighter@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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 ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

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

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    • MajorasTerribleFate@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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 ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    gray - 🇺🇸 english (simplified)

    grey - 🇬🇧 english (traditional)

    gr*y - 🇦🇺 english (explicit)

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  • trackball_fetish@lemmy.wtf ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

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

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  • Cethin@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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 ⁨day⁩ ago

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

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    • quick_snail@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Due to brain damage

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    • Codpiece@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

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

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• TheFermentalist@reddthat.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  E is the European version, A is the American version. This sounds trite, but is true, and makes it simple to know which one to use

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  • 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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    • 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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  • 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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    • 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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    • Venator@lemmy.nz ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

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

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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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  • tyler@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Americans spell it whatever way they want.

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    • DebatableRaccoon@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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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• jenesaisquoi@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  It is spelled grey in correct English. In the USA, they like spelling it gray.

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  • SuiXi3D@fedia.io ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    All language is made up. There is no ‘correct’.

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    • jenesaisquoi@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Standardisation of language is not pointless. Shared standards serve concrete functions:

      • When 8 million people write “colour” the same way, you don’t pause to decode variants
      • Technical manuals, legal documents, medical instructions need precision—ambiguity costs lives
      • Cross-generational understanding: Shakespeare’s English is already hard without adding modern variation to the mix
      • Standardized spelling keeps homophones distinct (their/there/they’re)

      Standardisation of language isn’t about one version being inherently right. It’s about shared agreement that enables function at scale.

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    • Auli@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Bullshit. Yes there is.

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  • Forester@pawb.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Buddy we got the spelling from you before you decided to deep throat the French and copy their spellings

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    • jenesaisquoi@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      I’m not English.

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    • ohulancutash@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      1066?

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  • Nemo@slrpnk.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    No we don’t. Grey is the only way.

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• over_clox@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I think it’s a USA vs European English thing.

  I prefer the ‘grey’ spelling though, even though ‘gray’ is most common in the states.

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  • SorteKanin@feddit.dk ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    European English

    Is this a thing? Isn’t it just “British English”?

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    • ITGuyLevi@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Nah, I think that was part of the terms of Brexit, given more people in the EU speak it than in Briton they get to claim the weird spellings… At least they let the Brits keep there combined use of metric and imperial.

      /s if it wasn’t obvious

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• quick_snail@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Yes

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• spacegoat@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I know that this is “no stupid questions” but it boggles the mind that people post in forums when the answer is either yes/no, or a single sentence explanation available in a web search.

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  • zeppo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    we should just not have Lemmy at all and only read news articles, wikipedia and talk to ourselves

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    • Waraugh@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      I’m glad you asked. This is something I never realized how often I have brief flashes of curiosity about before I yolo it and never bothered looking up. As soon as I saw the title I was looking forward to reading what people had to say.

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    • spacegoat@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      I would argue that the purpose of Lemmy comments is dialogue, not for other users to be someone’s dictionary

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• olafurp@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Yes

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• CombatWombat@feddit.online ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Gray is the correct spelling 🦅🇺🇸🎆🎸🤼‍♂️🍖

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• lillardfair@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I know it’s an American vs other English speaking countries thing, but as an American I can honestly never remember which one we are. I always used to look it up, but now I just shoot from the hip and assume I’m right, which feels the most American way to approach it.

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  • tyler@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I think that’s what most Americans do. I don’t think I’ve thought about how to spell it in decades. I just spell it both ways depending on the day.

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  • shyguyblue@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    When I was in high school, a girl passed me a note:

    Are you gray?

    Never forgot the spelling ;)

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• degenerate_neutron_matter@fedia.io ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  It's græy

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  • bstix@feddit.dk ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    In all the languages that have the letter æ , exactly none of them use it for that colour.

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• Hiro8811@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  It’s pronounced gay ya twats

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• lastlybutfirstly@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Gray in the US. Grey elsewhere.

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• PragmaticOne@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  ‘Grey’ refers to the colour.

  But ‘grey’ and ‘gray’ can also be surnames.

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• Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Either way is correct.

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• LodeMike@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Gray in the U.S. presumably because a was cheaper than e for typesetting

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  • content_educator_94@thelemmy.club ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Why would a be cheaper than e

    They’re both vowels lol

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    • LodeMike@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Source: I made it up.

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• kibblebits@quokk.au ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Grea

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• Casuls_Die_Thrice@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Yes

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• adarza@piefed.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  for the color i use “a” always.. but was taught either one was acceptable, unless it’s a name (proper noun).

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• Zomg@piefed.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Depends on where you live. There are American and European spellings for some words. IE color vs colour

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• forestbeasts@pawb.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Depends who you ask.

  We know someone named Gray and a different person named Grey!

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• Treczoks@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  “Grey” is British English, “Gray” is simplified English AKA American.

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• TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  gay

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