Gray or Grey

Matt Newman

I was in my Windows Programming (C and Win32) class today and stumbled upon a weird "issue" when selecting a LTGREY_BRUSH, took me forever to figure out that I was supposed to use LTGRAY_BRUSH. Couple other students made the same mistake, so we were wondering what the difference is (other than spelling). Dictionary.com gives them the same definition. What is the difference? Does anybody know?

Matt Newman

Lost User

Grey is for a surname, gray is for a oclour. Elaine :rose:

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Nish Nishant

Grey is British spelling (like colour). Gray is the American one (like color).

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Nish Nishant

Trollslayer wrote:

Grey is for a surname, gray is for a oclour.

Er, nope - unless you are joking. See Gray is a color. Grey is a *colour*.[^]

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Matt Newman

Nishant Sivakumar wrote:

Grey is British spelling (like colour). Gray is the American one (like color).

Thanks, though it seems odd that a bunch of American's were using the British version :)

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Nemanja Trifunovic

It is pretty much a gray area.

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Nish Nishant

Matt Newman wrote:

Thanks, though it seems odd that a bunch of American's were using the British version

Lots of British spelling folks (including those in countries like India, Australia) seem to spell it as gray (maybe because of the strong American influence).

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Matt Newman

:doh:

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Rob Graham

No, it's a grey area.;P

ednrgc

So Gray is correct??? :laugh::rolleyes:

ednrgc

In regular expression, it's a gr[ea]y area. :laugh:

Lost User

Gray is a Scottish name, grey is a colour. The yanks just use gray for everything

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Lost User

Trollslayer wrote:

Grey is for a surname, gray is for a oclour.

So your saying im a colour? and a rather bland one at that! I used to work in a car yard, the guy who did the job before had the last name Black, the guy before him White. They used to say I was as good as the two of them combined :)

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El Corazon

Josh Gray wrote:

grey is a colour

I use grey, my peer yanks just correct me. :rolleyes:

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Michael Dunn

No difference at all, they're the same thing. Either one is acceptable in the US, it isn't like color/colour where you'll get funny looks from Americans if you use colour. Just don't say Gray Cup, though ;)

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Eytukan

I guess they can settle the issue with a Grae.

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