grey or gray? How do you spell it?

[TwiceOver]

According to my current spell checker Grey is a name and gray is a color.

I use grey as a color. Don't really care.

 

[acheron]

Gray is also a name.

 

[meltdown75]

shaliqua

 

[Linflas]

Grey.

 

[BoomerD]

For some reason, I prefer grey, but "proper American" sez gray. :roll:

 

[Bryophyte]

Grey. I never spell it Gray.

 

[Barfo]

gray

 

[Mr Pickles]

I honestly stop before I get to the word, think about it, read the sentence, and then put in whatever I think sounds best at the time. I have no clue what the right way is.

 

[Turin39789]

Originally posted by: gorcorps

Originally posted by: Zim Hosein

Originally posted by: gorcorps
I've seen this color spelled both ways. What do you use?

Is your first name Bernie?

Nope, but that was an interesting link. Just another Americanized spelling for something that didn't need to be changed

Its also wrong. Does no one use the OED anymore?

It used to be grae, graea, graez, etc in the really old school. Then it was used both ways, for a long time spelling in general was very fluid. But before the colonization of America it was used as both gray and grey. Use whatever you want.

"
GRAY - a1000 Cædmon's Gen. 2865 (Gr.) Ac hine se hala wer gyrde græan sweorde. a1000 Boeth. Metr. v. 8 Oft smylte sæ suerne wind, græe glashlutre, grimme edrefe. c1000 ÆLFRIC Saints' Lives II. 324 a læ se græa wulf e bewiste æt heafod. a1300 Cursor M. 9886 is castel..It es hei sett a-pon e crag, Grai [Gött. Gray] and hard. a1400-50 Alexander 1330 He mas to graue sum in grete & sum in gray marble. 1527 ANDREW Brunswyke's Distyll. Waters Fijb, It is rede that the graye water snakes engendreth them with the eale. 1590 SPENSER F.Q. I. ii. 28 Two goodly trees..did spred Their armes abroad, with gray mosse overcast. 1597 SHAKES. 2 Hen. IV, II. iii. 19 It stucke vpon him, as the Sunne In the gray vault of Heauen.


GREY - a700 Epinal Gloss. 473 Glaucum, heuui vel grei. c725 Ags. Voc. in Wr.-Wülcker 21 Feruginius, grei. a1225 Ancr. R. 12 Her inne is religiun & nout ie wide hod..ne ie gree kuuele. c1250 Gen. & Ex. 1723 Sep or got, haswed, arled, or grei, Ben don fro iacob fer a-wei. c1315 SHOREHAM 145 Sonne and mone and sterren greye. 1466 Paston Lett. No. 549 II. 270 For grey lynen cloth and sylk frenge for the hers. 1576 TURBERV. Venerie 184 As touching their heare they have a grey coate..waxyng greyer and greyer the elder that they bee. 1662 J. DAVIES tr. Olearius' Voy. Ambass. 207 Clad in a grey Garment.
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[Pheran]

Google Fight

 

[Phoenix86]

Originally posted by: SparkyJJO

Originally posted by: Muse
I still haven't made up my mind and often wondered. I'll read this thread and find out something, I guess.

I prefer disk to disc though, even though I see disc everywhere. Is it just me?

Disc is for round ones like CDs DVDs etc... disk more for floppies and hard drives. At least, that's how I always thought of it <shrug>

Floppies and HDDs are also round, it's their containers that are square/rectangle.

Disc is optical, disk is magnetic according to: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2300

This is pretty standard, however I have seen both terms used interchangeably.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disk
Aluminum disc, a magnetic recording disc used mainly for early radio recordings

 

[sao123]

Grey is used primarily in areas that use UK English. Gray is used primarily in areas that use US English.

 

[SphinxnihpS]

People misspell the color gray so often that grey has become acceptable. Idiots rule!

 

[nerp]

Originally posted by: SphinxnihpS
People misspell the color gray so often that grey has become acceptable. Idiots rule!

I tried to point that out but everyone ignored my post. You reassure me, contented asian looking woman.

 

[ConwayJim]

Originally posted by: Nik
Grey for a name. Gray for the color.

I think it's the other way, my buddy is called Gray...

 

[jman19]

Originally posted by: acheron
Gray is also a name.

Came in here to post this

 

[BoomerD]

Originally posted by: ConwayJim

Originally posted by: Nik
Grey for a colour. Gray for the name.

I think it's the other way, my buddy is called Gray...

Fixed for our limey friends...