Difference between Grey and Gray.

Grey and colour are the British spellings. Gray and color are the American spellings. Pairing them this way in the image is supposed to be funny. I am unsure of other English speaking location distinctions.

I remmeber it as grey e for England and gray a for America

Some other differences in spelling between U.K. and U.S.: UK - aluminium US - aluminum UK - theatre US - theater UK - analyse US - analyze UK -flavour US - flavor There are many other words that follow similar patterns (-or/-our, -er/-re, -ize/-ise, etc.). I don’t know how other English-speaking countries spell these words.

Hmm, yes, quite. How droll.

This is a common misconception; either gray or grey are accepted American spellings. “[Grey](https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/grey)” is considered a less common variant, not a “chiefly British” spelling like “colour.” Just because a spelling may be used only in America, that doesn’t always mean it is the only option Americans use. I’ve seen an increase in casual American “grey” usage and American website usage over the last decade or so. Perhaps because of *50 Shades*. 😅 Though of course when it is a proper noun, you defer to the particular spelling, e.g. Earl Grey, Dorian Gray.

Amusing.

Grey and Gray seem to me to get equally used here in the US (spell checker here likes both) making it a guess how someone plans to spell it. Color on the other hand is definitely how people in the US spell it but a lot of the rest of the English world uses the colour spelling.

**A**mericans spell it gr**A**y The **E**nglish spell it gr**E**y

In the USA grey and gray are both correct. I spell it grey.

If I'm not mistaken there is a state in the US where people traditionally tend to spell it 'grey'. I think it might be Kentucky, but don't quote me on that.

E for English and A for American

About 4500 miles.

In British English, I was taught ‘grey’ is a colour; ‘gray’ is a name. The first is the older spelling, and reflects older sound - spelling relationships. It doesn’t really matter - there are no homophones to confuse learners. See, for example: Pray - prey Way - whey - weigh Hay - hey Lay - lei English is open, wide and inclusive enough to allow these alternatives.

For some reason the word "grey" feels more gray, even though I'm american

The Foo Fighters' second album was called The Colour And The Shape because it's a quote. However their album In Your Hono(u)r had the appropriate spelling depending on which country it was sold in, the same artwork but the U added in for the UK (and maybe Australia). HP Lovecraft pre-dated the uptake of the revised US spelling of colour without the U (it seems it's pretty recent) so his short stort was called The Colour Out of Space. Finally, Australia spell words with 'our' not 'or', like us Brits do, except in the case of The Australian Labor Party, who were started and named at a time when it was thought Australia might follow America into modern, simplified spells.

Both "grey" and "gray" are acceptable in the US, so long as you don't inconsistently swap between spellings in the same piece of writing. They really shouldn't be capitalized thogh I've managed to convince a fair number of native speakers that "gray" is masculine and "grey" is feminine. It's not true, but it feels consistent enough that it could be true. I always tell them I was messing with them after lol. It's mostly an exercise in demonstrating how readily people accept "uhm actually"s

"Grey" is British English and "Gray" is American English Although it doesn't really seem like many people care about the difference and just use both interchangeably

American here, we say gray and grey, I’d say that there about equally as common

I use both with no rhyme or reason to which one in any instance. I don’t use colour though.

I use them interchangeably. I guess I like to keep people on their toes 😅

I'm a born and raised Texan that's always used Grey and Colour lol. Also Harbour.

american here, and i'm honestly very unfamiliar with the semantics of this. not sure where i learned it from, but i've always used both depending on the context: *gray* denotes the color, while *grey* is used to describe the aging or discoloration of something (e.g., something that has *greyed* [over time], something that is [currently] *greying*—whether it be in the physical or metaphorical sense, but *grayed* and *graying* are also acceptable spellings), but most native speakers i know use them interchangeably, and it doesn't really bother anybody lol

I'm American and I've put my phone on British English because I got sick of it constantly autocorrecting Grey to Gray

Fun fact: America dropped some extra letters from their English words- "colour, catalogue programme, favour, cancelled, etc" for three reasons: to differentiate American from English, to promote literacy (phonetic spelling), and to save money and print space in newspapers, books, and the distionary.

As a Canadian, I never know which way to spell it and have never really cared either.

Also, `color` and `gray` are keywords used in CSS (Cascading Style Sheets), but `grey` is also available as a `gray` alias.

In America I think we use both versions of grey

It's very common to see Americans (mis-?) spell it "grey". I'm talking about people who would *never* write "colour" or "organise". But yeah, the rule is "grey" in the UK and "gray" in the US.

I'd be inclined to say <grey> is my first instinct for writing the color while <gray> feels like a name.

E is traditional, a is simplified

Whatever harder to write is British. I just go with that.

I'm an American and I use grey. I just think it looks better lol

Grey is the British spelling, as is Colour. Gray is the American spelling, as is Color.

Midwestern American here. I’ve used them interchangeably my whole life.

In America it’s gray because America is gay (I’m not sorry)

HOW about is it gray and gloomy out side. or is that the color grey your wearing. i like this.

Is it OK that I prefer grey as an American?

I like to make sure whichever I use, I'm consistent within the document and inconsistent between documents.

It is sergeant gray

I thought grey is a color and Gray is a name. HAHA

Grey is how you spell it. The Americans just like to change the language lol

To add to the confusion: I was always told, "Grey is a color, Gray is a name."

What's interesting about gray vs. grey as compared to other American vs. UK spellings is that it's very common to see both "gray" and "grey" used by people from the US, but other UK spellings are almost never used. For instance, it's practically unheard of to see "colour" used by someone from the US instead of "color".

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I use both interchangeably

wow

Interesting

I understood now😄

Wow

I always remembered it as gr**E**y in **E**ngland, gr**A**y in **A**merica.

Of all the words you could “misspell” this one might be a contender for mattering the least if you do so. Honestly, I am willing to bet a lot of people even mix the two spellings up randomly.

It should be noted that in compound words that contain grey/gray there is usually only one correct spelling. For example "greyhound" should always be spelled with an e, never as "grayhound", even in the US.