Grey or Gray?
 

Why do british people and Americans spell it differently?

Uh, the Atlantic Ocean.

There were more gray fish than grey fish near canada and the U.K, and there were more grey fish than gray fish near the U.S.

So really, it would seem unusual to be all "Wuddup I'm doing the inverse" to this situation. But like, why do you drive on a parkway and park on a driveway? I think it's NUTS. People's noggins need to be tuned at certain points of their life. They go into the cold and they think different.

So really, because people's heads think different, my answer to this will be because of stringed instruments that need to be tuned on occasion.

i thought this would have been a poll. grey for me thanks.

Can you not just google it or find a book that answers your question?

I like to spell it different depending on my mood. Sometimes you see a color and you go, "that is so GRAY!" Other times you're like, "that is so GREY!" Do you guys know what I MEAN?

i thought grey was the colour(colour has a u over here)
and gray was a surname!!!! anywhere

yup, it's colour and gray here. And I just found out today that the canadian way of "minimize" is "minimise", but minimise sounds wrong. I still think my previous answer was MOST APPROPRIATE

Colour or color?

tomato or tomaaaato

who cares? we had a family to feed.

Quarter note or crotchet?

hey, howya
or
whasssuppppp bud!!!!!

sorry, first thingi could tink of!!!

Birdie or shuttle.

cricket or baseball
formula one or nascar
football or soccer
mtv or vh1
razorlight or the killers.....

MCR or Sonic Youth

I have always spelled it "Grey."

i just spilled coffee all over my crotchet.

I'm American and spell it "grey".

Effacement. Effacement? Effacement. I generally privelege the vernacular over propriety. EFFACEMENT.

I read "Grey or Gay?"

I don't do it either way exclusively.. I guess Canadians are supposed to put gray? I prefer grey, but I don't care.

Balls or Bollocks?

Douchebag or U.S. President Bush?

oh, my mistake. They are synonymous.

yeh greyvy

gravy or greyve?

I still say the best Gray is Spalding Gray.

R.I.P. Spalding Gray (1941-2004)

My mom used to always say buggie.

"Jay, move away from the buggie.'

Yeah, that sounds about right.

Does anyone else use "ay" causally like us canadians? Whenever I meet a friend from another country and I end my sentence with "ay", they think it's funny that we actually use it on a regular basis

i pronounce a lot of my words quite slowly and quite drawn out i.e rrooooaaaadddd and computeeeerrrrr. its just the dialect of where i am from. we also dont pronounce our t's very much.

We call shopping carts "shopping trolleys", and baby strollers we call "pushchairs". And do you know why we do that? BECAUSE THAT'S WHAT THEIR PROPER NAMES ARE!!!!

Pfff. Silly Californian woman. :rolleyes:

I never string sentences together fast enough, so I find myself looking for words a lot in mid sentence

haha buggies indeed!

next they will be saying they dont drink their tea with milk.

Inhuman: Did you stop for a while in the middle of typing that? ;)

funny thing actually, I added a large amount of space in middle of the sentence,









but it was removed.

So near, and yet so far.

Ah now, not entirely true.

There are pushchairs and there are buggies.

Pushchairs tend to be more substantial and often convert from/into a pram.

Buggies are light and more easily transportable (and break a lot easier).

And the word stroller is used amongst the woman at my mothers' coffee mornings, but not as often.

hush up pookie!

Are you intimidated by my baby transport knowledge?

no not at all but this is amunittion to the ongoing bloody war of atrition between the americans and british board members. clearly you are not british and should therefore be imprisoned in the tower until such a time as we grow weary etc.

The word is used among women. Women are not as well educated as men, because they have spent their teenage years thinking about Take That and make-up and planning how many babies they are going to have, instead of concentrating in class. Just because a woman says something does not mean it is right.

Downtrodden fool!