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Is it gray or grey?

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How do you spell gray? Grey or gray?

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Post June 16th, 2003, 1:58 pm

ooo I feel enlightended with info :-P

Doesn't HTML give off green when you use grey? (probably because of the first three leters...but its move of the attomic green...)

I use grey more often though, just seems right :flush:

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Post July 11th, 2003, 4:19 am

wow, you learn something everyday. Gray or grey is what I learned today....
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Post July 24th, 2003, 9:01 pm

My real name is Graham.
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Post May 16th, 2006, 11:20 am

I was taught that grAy = masculine gender, while grEy = feminine gender.
(This discussion ongoing at another site so I thought I'd pop in here to get a few more takes on it.)
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Post May 16th, 2006, 11:29 am

*lol, my how time flies. I can remember this was one of the first posts I ever replied to when I first got here 3 years ago.

I still use gray, but sometimes if I'm typing and not thinking much it comes out grey.
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Post May 16th, 2006, 12:06 pm

WordSmith wrote:
I was taught that grAy = masculine gender, while grEy = feminine gender.
(This discussion ongoing at another site so I thought I'd pop in here to get a few more takes on it.)


:rofl: that's funny.

(I know it was a while ago ;)) Re: ATNO & w3schools - they are going to use gray as (a) that is a US based website and (b) most if not all html/css codes/tags are U.S. English (e.g. center,color)

[endof]Yes as BigWeb said grey=English, gray=U.S. English.[/endof]
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Post May 16th, 2006, 5:30 pm

ATNO/TW wrote:
*lol, my how time flies. I can remember this was one of the first posts I ever replied to when I first got here 3 years ago.

I still use gray, but sometimes if I'm typing and not thinking much it comes out grey.


Now where is that post about the forum poster who comes in and resurrects dead posts after several years? :-P
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Post May 16th, 2006, 5:40 pm

x.setColor(Color.gray);
read it!
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Post May 17th, 2006, 6:36 am

The Grateful Dead - Touch Of Grey

Enough said.
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Post May 17th, 2006, 6:46 am

Speaking of Grateful Dead, you'll enjoy this lucassix
http://blogcritics.org/archives/2004/12/14/095644.php
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Post May 17th, 2006, 6:55 am

The correct spelling is grey..

It's one of them words, Like colour, That americans spell wrong.
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Post May 18th, 2006, 6:48 am

lol, this is an OLD topic. I personally think its grey. Not sure why, but it just sounds right. :)
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Post May 18th, 2006, 6:56 am

The original word in "English" is/was grey. As has been noted us Americans changed it to gray.
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Post May 18th, 2006, 7:00 am

I wonder how or why it got changed. Doesnt make a lot of sense. How do you just all of a sudden change the way a word is spelled? If its possible to do so, then I say we start spelling "Laugh" "Laf!" :)
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Post May 18th, 2006, 7:54 am

Here's quite an entertaining read on the subject
http://flakmag.com/misc/grey.html
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Post May 18th, 2006, 7:54 am

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