but...what if I was allergic to bacon and can only see grey?!
It's "gray" damn it!
Oi blame the monkey that the programed da speel checker on dis here fone. I just tak the buttons. grey, gray, gary, great gobs of gopher guts...
Yeah, spell check is a pain... so...
Originally posted by: MuNKeY
but...what if I was allergic to bacon and can only see great gobs of gopher guts?!
... there! Fixed it for ya, bud.
In the UK (the birthplace of the language), the spelling is "grey". In the US (where they completely made up their own version of the language, and often have the magical combination of ignorance and nerve to correct others when they spell things as they were intended to be spelled), spell it "gray".
Right, but how much can we trust the birthplace of the language, when we know the English upper class, enamored with all things French in the 1700s let French spellings creep into English language? We (Americans) spell some words with an older English spelling from before Brits flip-flopped to French spellings - in which case the American spellings are more "true" to the birthplace.
Specifically regarding, "grey" versus "gray": When the US began using "gray", the defintive British spelling hadn't even been established yet.
- According to an interesting and authoritative note in the Oxford English Dictionary, the spelling "gray" was championed by Samuel Johnson, English writer and lexicographer and other English lexicographers; but in the twentieth century "grey" became the established spelling in Britain anyway.
- Meanwhile, in the United States, "gray" became standard somewhat earlier. Examining two nineteenth-century U.S. dictionaries--Webster's Academic Dictionary (1867) and Webster's Condensed Dictionary (~1897)--and both include entries for "grey" that refer readers to "gray" for the term's definitions.
So yeah, completely made up, that's right
Hahaha I'm not gonna lie, my friend (a fellow NAer) asked me what thread I was looking at. I said "Oh we've got a spelling debate on our hands over here!" he said "Sweet, see if you can goad anyone into a Google fact-checking debate with your reply!"
Ha, always an opportunity to make it abundantly clear America is always right.
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Not answering the second question due to lack of applicable options and a loaded question. You can do better, Paul.
but...what if I was allergic to bacon and can only see grey?!
It's "gray" damn it!
Oi blame the monkey that the programed da speel checker on dis here fone. I just tak the buttons. grey, gray, gary, great gobs of gopher guts...
Yeah, spell check is a pain... so...
but...what if I was allergic to bacon and can only see great gobs of gopher guts?!
... there! Fixed it for ya, bud.
In the UK (the birthplace of the language), the spelling is "grey". In the US (where they completely made up their own version of the language, and often have the magical combination of ignorance and nerve to correct others when they spell things as they were intended to be spelled), spell it "gray".
Right, but how much can we trust the birthplace of the language, when we know the English upper class, enamored with all things French in the 1700s let French spellings creep into English language? We (Americans) spell some words with an older English spelling from before Brits flip-flopped to French spellings - in which case the American spellings are more "true" to the birthplace.
Specifically regarding, "grey" versus "gray": When the US began using "gray", the defintive British spelling hadn't even been established yet.
- According to an interesting and authoritative note in the Oxford English Dictionary, the spelling "gray" was championed by Samuel Johnson, English writer and lexicographer and other English lexicographers; but in the twentieth century "grey" became the established spelling in Britain anyway.
- Meanwhile, in the United States, "gray" became standard somewhat earlier. Examining two nineteenth-century U.S. dictionaries--Webster's Academic Dictionary (1867) and Webster's Condensed Dictionary (~1897)--and both include entries for "grey" that refer readers to "gray" for the term's definitions.
So yeah, completely made up, that's right
Hahaha I'm not gonna lie, my friend (a fellow NAer) asked me what thread I was looking at. I said "Oh we've got a spelling debate on our hands over here!" he said "Sweet, see if you can goad anyone into a Google fact-checking debate with your reply!"
Ha, always an opportunity to make it abundantly clear America is always right.
Bacon.