why is this not one way or the other?
addendum: wow, thanks everyone. I truly never knew it was a British vs. American spelling thing.
Gray is a color, while grey is a colour.
Gray is the color of aluminum, grey is the colour of aluminium
Fantastic!
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.
Than*
It’s not British or American to just use the wildly-wrong word… That’s just misusing words.
piss assholes off
piss off assholes
;-)
Split infinitive? To boldly go or to go boldly? If it’s intelligible I’d let it slide - second languages and all that.
*essholas
*arseholes
Seems you succeeded, keep up the good work!
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.
Yes
Gray in the US. Grey elsewhere.
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.
When I was in high school, a girl passed me a note:
Are you g
ray?Never forgot the spelling ;)
It’s pronounced gay ya twats
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.
we should just not have Lemmy at all and only read news articles, wikipedia and talk to ourselves
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.
I would argue that the purpose of Lemmy comments is dialogue, not for other users to be someone’s dictionary
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‘Grey’ refers to the colour.
But ‘grey’ and ‘gray’ can also be surnames.
“Grey” is British English, “Gray” is simplified English AKA American.
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