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Montegriffo
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by Montegriffo » Sat Feb 18, 2017 11:46 am
Speaker to Animals wrote:Gray is the correct form according to American dictionaries.
However in the English language it is spelled grey. You have been corrupted by the filthy French language. Take a stand for Anglo-Saxons and start spelling it right.
Grey comes from the Middle English grai or grei, from the Anglo-Saxon graeg, and is related to the Dutch grauw and grijs and German grau.[10] The first recorded use of grey as a colour name in the English language was in AD 700.[4]
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For legal reasons, we are not threatening to destroy U.S. government property with our glorious medieval siege engine. But if we wanted to, we could. But we won’t. But we could.
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by Speaker to Animals » Sat Feb 18, 2017 11:49 am
Montegriffo wrote:Speaker to Animals wrote:Gray is the correct form according to American dictionaries.
However in the English language it is spelled grey. You have been corrupted by the filthy French language. Take a stand for Anglo-Saxons and start spelling it right.
We have both spellings, but gray is the dominant spelling in the US. Not sure about Canada. UK still uses grey. My spell checker underlines grey as a mistake, btw.
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TheReal_ND
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by TheReal_ND » Sat Feb 18, 2017 11:50 am
Grey as in greyhound.
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by Montegriffo » Sat Feb 18, 2017 11:52 am
Speaker to Animals wrote:Montegriffo wrote:Speaker to Animals wrote:Gray is the correct form according to American dictionaries.
However in the English language it is spelled grey. You have been corrupted by the filthy French language. Take a stand for Anglo-Saxons and start spelling it right.
We have both spellings, but gray is the dominant spelling in the US. Not sure about Canada. UK still uses grey. My spell checker underlines grey as a mistake, btw.
My spell checker underlines gray as incorrect. Most of the commonwealth uses grey.
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by Speaker to Animals » Sat Feb 18, 2017 11:53 am
Both spellings, which have origins in the Old English grǽg, have existed hundreds of years.1 Grey gained ascendancy in all varieties of English in the early 18th century, but its dominance as the preferred form was checked when American writers adopted gray about a century later. As the Ngram below shows, this change in American English came around 1825. Since then, both forms have remained fairly common throughout the English-speaking world, but the favoring of gray in the U.S. and grey everywhere else has remained consistent.
Some people make their own distinctions between gray and grey. You can find some interesting examples in the comments below. There is nothing wrong with these preferences, but they are not borne out in broader usage. For most people, gray and grey are simply different spellings of the same word.
Both spellings are used for the participles, grayed/greyed and graying/greying, as well as for most of the words and phrases involving gray/grey. For instance, grey area/gray area, referring to an area having characteristics of two extremes, is commonly spelled both ways. So is graybeard/greybeard, referring to an older man with a beard, and gray squirrel/grey squirrel (which refer to closely related types of squirrels on opposite sides of the Atlantic). There are at least a couple of exceptions, though: greyhound, for the breed of dog, always has an e, while grayling, which refers to several types of fish, always has an a.
http://grammarist.com/spelling/gray-grey/
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by TheReal_ND » Sat Feb 18, 2017 11:58 am
Grey.
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by Okeefenokee » Sat Feb 18, 2017 12:10 pm
TheReal_ND wrote:Grey.
that's unAmerican.
GrumpyCatFace wrote:Dumb slut partied too hard and woke up in a weird house. Ran out the door, weeping for her failed life choices, concerned townsfolk notes her appearance and alerted the fuzz.
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TheReal_ND
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by TheReal_ND » Sat Feb 18, 2017 12:11 pm
So are Mexicans and the Jewish authored inscription on the Statue of Liberty. Fuck off lolberg.
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by Okeefenokee » Sat Feb 18, 2017 12:14 pm
TheReal_ND wrote:So are Mexicans and the Jewish authored inscription on the Statue of Liberty. Fuck off lolberg.
It's not even an inscription.
GrumpyCatFace wrote:Dumb slut partied too hard and woke up in a weird house. Ran out the door, weeping for her failed life choices, concerned townsfolk notes her appearance and alerted the fuzz.
viewtopic.php?p=60751#p60751
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by TheReal_ND » Sat Feb 18, 2017 12:26 pm
Okeefenokee wrote:TheReal_ND wrote:So are Mexicans and the Jewish authored inscription on the Statue of Liberty. Fuck off lolberg.
It's not even an inscription.
Do your googles
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/This_Land_Is_Your_Land