School Spelling Question - That Not White, Not Black Shade

[Banzai]

English class can get so random. Today we spent time on how to spell grey. So how do you spell it, and where are you from?

I spell it "grey" and I am from Pittsburgh.

 

[grinningghost]

I'm from Buffalo and I say it's gray. And I should know, as our skies are usually GRAY around here.

 

[Pam]

TRAITOR!!

I'm only 25-30 miles north of you and I spell it GRAY!!

 

[Jenn Lynn]

Gray-From WI.

 

[Alice28]

Gray, although I have seen in both ways...grew up in CA, now in OR.

 

[helenabear]

Gray here... and according to Merriam-Webster Dictionary it is gray... and grey is a variant of gray. I've only seen Grey really used for a name and not a color.

 

[grinningghost]

I think "grey" is for fancy kids.

 

[faithinkarma]

I always thought gray was the British / Canadian way of spelling it, ( like colour and rumour etc. ) and switched to grey when I moved here.

I just used my spell check and it corrected my grey to gray. Live and learn as they say.

 

[Nagle]

Grey up here in the great white north.

 

[msdznyduck]

Gray here in NJ

 

[peg2001]

The color is gray, the dog is grey (hound).

Peggy

Oops, forgot to say I'm in Tenn.

 

[IMGONNABE40!]

GRAY when I was growing up on Long Island and still GRAY here in Cincinnati.

 

[iNTeNSeBLue98]

Growing up it was always gray like the Crayola crayon. Now, at work especially, it's grey, for the colors of clothing.

From RhymeZone.com:

Definitions of GREY
noun: Englishman who as Prime minister implemented social reforms including the abolition of slavery throughout the British Empire (1764-1845)
noun: Queen of England for nine days in 1553; she was quickly replaced by Mary Tudor and beheaded for treason (1537-1554)
noun: United States writer of western adventure novels (1875-1939)
noun: gray clothing
noun: any organization or party whose uniforms or badges are gray
noun: a neutral achromatic color midway between white and black
verb: turn gray
verb: make gray
adjective: an achromatic color of any lightness between the extremes of black and white
adjective: intermediate in character or position
adjective: used to signify the Confederate forces in the Civil War (who wore gray uniforms)
adjective: showing characteristics of age, especially having gray or white hair
adjective: darkened with overcast
name: A surname (common: 1 in 25000 families; popularity rank in the U.S.: #2782)

Definitions of GRAY
noun: horse of a light grey or whitish color
noun: gray clothing
Example: "He was dressed in gray"
noun: a neutral achromatic color midway between white and black
noun: any organization or party whose uniforms or badges are gray
Example: "The Confederate army was a vast gray"
noun: United States botanist who specialized in North American flora and who was an early supporter of Darwin's theories of evolution (1810-1888)
noun: American navigator who twice circumnavigated the globe and who discovered the Columbia River (1755-1806)
noun: English poet best known for his elegy written in a country church-yard (1716-1771)
verb: turn gray
Example: "Her hair began to gray"
verb: make gray
adjective: clothed in gray or a gray costume
Example: "Gray Ladies are volunteer workers in the American Red Cross"
adjective: an achromatic color of any lightness between the extremes of black and white
Example: "Gray flannel suit"
adjective: intermediate in character or position
Example: "A gray area between clearly legal and strictly illegal"
adjective: used to signify the Confederate forces in the Civil War (who wore gray uniforms)
Example: "A stalwart gray figure"
adjective: showing characteristics of age, especially having gray or white hair
adjective: darkened with overcast
Example: "A gray rainy afternoon"
name: A surname (very common: 1 in 943 families; popularity rank in the U.S.: #69)

For the most part, the are one and the same. Looking further at RhymeZone:
Related words GRAY
Synonyms:
achromatic, cloudy, colorless, dull, gray-haired, gray-headed, grayish, grayness, grey-haired, grey-headed, greyish, greyness, hoar, hoary, intermediate, leaden, old, southern, white-haired

More general:
achromatic color, achromatic colour, apparel, clothes, clothing, color, colour, discolor, discolour, mount, organisation, organization, riding horse, saddle horse, vesture, wear, wearing apparel

More specific:
ash gray, charcoal, charcoal gray, dappled-gray, dappled-grey, dapple-gray, dapple-grey, davy's gray, iron blue, iron-gray, iron-grey, oxford gray, silver, silver gray, steel gray, tattletale gray, tattletale grey

Related words GREY
Synonyms:
achromatic, cloudy, colorless, dull, gray-haired, gray-headed, grayish, grayness, grey-haired, grey-headed, greyish, greyness, hoar, hoary, intermediate, leaden, old, southern, white-haired

More general:
achromatic color, achromatic colour, apparel, clothes, clothing, color, colour, discolor, discolour, organisation, organization, vesture, wear, wearing apparel

More specific:
ash grey, charcoal, charcoal grey, dappled-gray, dappled-grey, dapple-gray, dapple-grey, davy's gray, iron blue, iron-gray, iron-grey, oxford grey, silver, silver grey, tattletale gray, tattletale grey

Scanning across those, they are nearly identical.

 

[browneyes]

I spell it as gray most of the time, I've lived in Georgia all my life.

 

[Cruisin]

I think that I use both ways, cause I am never sure exactly which way it is supposed to be
My daughter says she uses grey. We are in Ontario Canada

 

[joshsmom]

It's Gray here in the Midwest--Granite City, IL is right across the river from St. Louis, MO. That's about as Midwest as you're gonna get!!!

 

[Pooh67_68]

Gray, I from Albrightsville, PA. For thoes in the know 25 miles North of Allentown.

 

[Nutsy]

I think this really depends on where you come from..

The English & the Aussies spell it GREY & I believe most Canadians do also.

Whereas most Americans spell it GRAY

It's like COLOUR & COLOR & FAVOUR & FAVOR etc.........

The Aussies, English & Canadians spell them with the U, whereas the Americans drop the U

 

[ShuisFan584]

I'm from NJ and I call it gray.

 

[dizneenut]

I'm in NE Ohio and I spell it GRAY.