If this is your first visit, be sure to
check out the FAQ by clicking the
link above. You may have to register
before you can post: click the register link above to proceed. To start viewing messages,
select the forum that you want to visit from the selection below.
My Indian parents grew up learning British English in their Indian schools, so they would use the "grey" spelling, but I noticed early on that American children's books would use "gray" instead. I guess I just absorbed it as a difference without giving a second thought, but I often would find myself using "grey" since I learned that spelling from my parents first and then changing it to "gray" when writing papers in school because I wasn't sure if some teachers would count it as incorrect. When in America, do as the Americans do, right?
The famous anatomical textbook first published in 1858 by British author GRAY was called "Gray's Anatomy."
So perhaps in Britain "gray" is used for names and "grey" for the color? And then to not get the famous book people up in arms, the tv people deliberately used "Grey's Anatomy" to call their show, as opposed to "Gray's Anatomy" the book?
To avoid all confusion, from now on I'll just spell it "greigh." So there!
To avoid all confusion, from now on I'll just spell it "greigh." So there!
But then, people will mis-pronounce it, thinking it's spoken like my first name (Gregg); and I have enough of a challenge with the 3-g spelling. (But the penultimate "g" is silent.)
So perhaps in Britain "gray" is used for names and "grey" for the color? And then to not get the famous book people up in arms, the tv people deliberately used "Grey's Anatomy" to call their show, as opposed to "Gray's Anatomy" the book?
It looks like both Grey and Gray are used for names in both the U.S. and Britain (there are the Earls Grey, which is definitely British, and from which comes the name of the tea).
From the link that Mel gave it looks like it's primarily a play-on-words since the main character is named Meredith Grey. Though I think they could just as easily have spelled it with the ay. I dunno...
Comment