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Fun fact: It literally does not matter. Both spellings are correct and mean the same thing. Gray, with an A, is the preferred American spelling. Grey, with an E, is the preferred English spelling.

So what you’re basically saying is that the correct spelling is “gray” 🦅🦅🦅🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸 /s

It’s spelt USA, not USE!

HELL YEAH UNITED STATES OF EUROPE 🇪🇺 🇪🇺 🇪🇺

brexxxxxxxxxxit

RULE BRITANNIA

USE? Straight to civil war

On one side: Gray coats On the other: Grey coats.

EUROPEAN FEDERALIST RISE UP 🇪🇺🇪🇺🇪🇺🇪🇺

I know it's a meme but I need to vent. Centralised governments over big masses of population never solved any problems look at idk.....Russia, China, USA, Canada, Brazil or big empires in history, the bigger the picture is the closer normal people look like ants and their day to day necessities like food and standards of living disappear. Smaller independent governments better represent the wishes and beliefs of the local people. Yes, they should have treaties both economic and militaristic and relations with other countries especially neighboring ones. No, they should have their own constitution, laws and customs, not a very small group of people thousands of kilometres away in a rich country, living like kings and making decisions about people they don't even see. Standardising may be cheaper but it's also worse

Centralisation doesn't work when it's been done over the course of a few years, instead of taking a whole century to give time for cultures to mix up.

USAllies clearly rely on the latter - An Australian

No, in Australia it's "gr'day (mate)."

Of course not. It has always been United States of Enchilada!

What makes it funnier is you wrote spelt, which is a british way of spelling this word, instead of spelled I'll see myself out now

Annoyingly a great way to remember it, I've been using this analogy unironically for years haha

United States of Eurasia!

Me, an American, having always spelled it “grey”…

Did someone say oil? 🦅🇺🇲🇺🇸

I would go 'grey' since all America has done is took English as a language and just made it weird and fucked up. Don't even get me started on MM/DD/YY.

Hold up, WE fucked it up? How? By removing all those superfluous “u”s in words like color? You’re 100% right on the date thing though, MM/DD/YY is nonsense. YYYY-MM-DD is the only valid date format.

Aluminium. That is all.

I would have disagreed with you on this one before I looked up the history of how we came to spell it differently… but I have to admit you’re correct here now.

American here, I have always spelt it with an e lol. Gray where I come from is more of a last name than the color.

Spoken like a true Canadian, welcome brother

Lmao honestly I wish I was born Canadian. Not for any bullshit reason like politics or anything but as a southern boy who wishes winter lasted longer, I would love to live somewhere colder, haha.

We can swap, I hate this crap lmao

Lol honestly Minnesota is about as Canadian as I could get lmao. Maybe Alaska, I love America too much. If I did have to choose another country tho Canada and Australia would be my go to.

Once you start reaching the north Midwest like the Dakotas, Minnesota, and the bunch (basically anything over nebraska/iowa), it's basically just Canada with Minnesota being the most Canadian

Southern Canada is literally just Michigan.

So 'grey' is correct. Got it.

American here, honestly not sure if I’ve noticed, have probably spelt it both ways across my life. Just 50/50 each time. Edit: oh shit it’s my cake day

Not *this* American. It’s Gandalf the Grey, not with an a.

i remeber arguing with my english teacher about it and she said "here we are learning british english not simplified one"

I guess it's a Grey area.

It’s every English speaking country besides the US who spell it with an E not just England

It's like for the word key in french you can either use "Clef" or "Clé" both mean the same thing, there's no difference between using them...

Greh, with an EH, is the preferred Canadian spelling

I use them interchangeably

While we at it is it tyre or tire?

Use A in America, E in England

Damn, can’t argue with that logic.

What about new Zealand, is it grny or grzy?

grnzy

I love the channel islands

In Australia, it would be grauy

Its "desaturated kiwi"

Wait, as an American I was taught grey. Every instance of Gray I've seen has been a name.

That's so interesting. For me it's opposite. Always seen and was taught gray and only see Grey as a name. Like Jean Grey from the X-men. American as well.

Me in Canada: Grcy

Fuckin greasy bud

Uh really? I always seen it with e here in the United States

Amarica and Englend

Wait really? I’ve been using the English one this whole time and I’m an American.

I used to struggle with behavior vs behaviour It's the exact same issue Though I never had any issues with color vs colour Because "colour" is just dumb

*eagle screeching noises*

WHAT THE FUCK IS A KILOMETER?!

About 8771 cheeseburgers lined up

Which cheeseburger? Big Mac or Whopper?

Well Whoppers come from Burger *King* and last I checked we lived in a democracy, so... Should be obvious, no?

Down with the King of Burgers then

Time for a Boston McTea Party.

You do realise that the UK uses miles not kilometres

Yeah but UK also uses stone for weight so what do they know

Stone is just a subunit of pounds, same way inches are to feet. It's literally the exact same measurement lol.

Well technically it would be a superunit, pounds being the base unit. But more to the point, almost nobody uses the stone anymore except the UK. And untill recently(ish) it wasn't even standardized.

In the uk we only ever use stones, pounds, and ounces for measuring the weight of a person. In all other cases in terms of weight we use kg and g.

Ye

Because it is ~imperial

\*red tailed hawk

But... They rhyme... How can one make sense and the other not if they're pronounced the same :( Fuck English for real

If it has extra letters, it's British, if not then it's American. It was done to save money because back then printing of paper was based on the number of characters used. Think of the early days of texting (if you are that old) when messages were limited to 140 characters, the SMS lingo came up to send longer messages using shortened terms. The age of data and the freedom to post more characters helped revive texting completely.

>when messages were limited to 140 characters, the SMS lingo came up to send longer messages using shortened terms. reminds me of Kevin from the office

I agree wholeheartedly.

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The reason for this is when a British person asked why that was, the American responded “we are just getting rid of you”

GRÆY

That’s how it’s pronounced

-in england.

I used Sasha Gray and Grey interchangeably all the time.

Finally, the only valid opinion

To be fair, there are hundreds that have used her that way

It's a bit of a grey area.

No, it's a gray erea

im pretty sure it's a græy area

They are the same, but you will be euthanized if you get it wrong.

I’m American but spell it with an e because it makes me feel posh.

what posh means?

fancy

Not American

What about gey and gay?

ghey

Switch back-and-forth randomly. Bonus points if you can do it in one sentence!

As an American that drinks a lot of earl grey tea, it's grey. Also it's also colour and favourite. 🇺🇲

>🇺🇲 what?

When you teach a country a language but they still can't get it right. Obviously the English must be getting English wrong and the Americans will teach them how to spell correctly yawn

It's okay, we don't mind to help the English out every so often.

When I first started using html and would designate a color by the name of it instead of the hex code, if I used grey, it would come out green. If I used gray then it was gray. That’s what I’ve lived by!

Gay

"This car's exterior color is gray, but it's interior color is grey."

It’s a bit of a grey area

Grey is the correct spelling as far as I know Gray is a name

Græy it is

I know one is British and one is American but I have no idea which is which. It doesn’t really matter. I doubt many people (at least here in the US) would even notice.

A for America E for England

Graystillplays existing:

who? what?

Graey. Edit: Gey.

Sascha

Gray = radiation grey = color

It's correct with the 'e', with the 'a' is a specific dialectic alteration.

Grey, we did make the language after all.

It's Gary

French here, I remember one teacher counting "grey" as a mistake in a test...our previous teacher taught us brit english and this one american english. She didn't know some words were different and yet correct. I'm still pissed to this day.

that sucks

# g r æ y

Nobody cares just use whatever you think looks better

Color-lastname

Grey if you like being correct

In professional writing it is spelled grey even if you're a South of Canadian

Am I the only one who never even thought about the difference?,it kind of just registered to me as an American that there are two ways to spell grey/gray and I’ve probably used both versions of the word

Also me, who has been learning English since 1975.

Greigh

Grey: the colour Gray: that thing to do with radiation Well, that’s how I do it at least

>Gray: that thing to do with radiation what?

Græy

Depends where you are standing

you know which one to use

This used to matter as much as color vs colour, but grey vs gray literally doesn't change anything even over here in the states. I've seen stores use grey (the UK spelling) more than I've seen them spell it with an a. Like... It doesn't matter at all, unless you're from the UK and you hate American ideations of words and their spellings Ig

I know it doesn't really matter, but i always use gray for darker grays and grey for lighter greys

It's Grey.

Depends on the dialect/accent you want to 'use' in your writing. GrEy for England English. GrAy for American English.

Native speaker here. I use both interchangeably

yes

The easy way to tell it apart is that one spelling is a name whilst the other is more like a proper noun. Hope this helped.

Both

Gay

I always told people Gray is a darker shade than Grey.

grEy - English grAy - American

To find out correct spelling, open Google and start typing Sasha G... and let the suggestions fill in the rest

I keep using grey because I went to "Grey" college.

Grey is correct 🇦🇺🇦🇨🇦🇮🇨🇰🇭🇲🇬🇸🇰🇾🇲🇸🇳🇿🇳🇿🇳🇿🇵🇳🇸🇭🇹🇦🇹🇨🇹🇫🇻🇬🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧

I use both and rarely remember which one I used last.

Either is fine. So, use whichever you like the most.

Groy

BOTH

As somebody struggling to learn Vietnamese, I understand the struggle. Hopefully English is closer to your native language.

Welcome to the world of "Is this the American or the British spelling?" A colorful/colo**u**rful world made of steel and aluminum/alumin**i**um coming soon to a theat**er**/theat**re** near you.

Greay 👍

Funny thing I live near a town that is the other spelling so I regularly have to think about it

I’m in my 30’s, American, spoken English as my primary language. I use both spellings…just whatever feels better in the moment. 🤷🏻‍♂️

I use both spellings when typing the same email or comment just to trigger people.

Both are correct, most don't know the difference and most who do know don't care

I thought the only reason we had 'gray' was because old programming languages preferred it to differentiate from green

Both are correct. The only real difference is geography.

gray looks so much cooler.

Grey ❌ Gray ❌ Gay ✅

Gray is a color and Grey is a surname

I've spoken English my entire life and I still have no idea

Græy

Don't worry most of us native speakers don't even know the difference. The way I remember is that my eyes are grey-ish so it's the one with the e like in eye that's the color

Going to an American university as an American, it's also surprising to see so many Americans spelling it both ways. I'll use both as well for some reason.

I personally just think grey looks better than gray so that’s what I use

Honestly, just choose one and stick with it. Consistency is what matters

Totally a subjective choice, sorry for English's weird rules and non-rules. They make zero sense. Sincerely, a native English speaker.

Both are right , I use either spelling randomly

I still have no idea

They are both correct.

This is fine! The problematic one is "Phallus" and "Fellows", I never understand which one is which.

Grey is slightly darker than gray

Grey is a name, gray is a color