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Re: Gray or Grey?
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Fri, 12 Nov 1999 02:24:05 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, David Eaton writes:
> In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Ben Roller writes:
> > 2. I'm not trying to say that the New World way is right and the British way
> > is wrong.
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> Wouldn't it be the other way 'round anyway? Seeing as how the English invented
> English? :)
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> DaveE
The English (and I would argue correct, but I'm an Aussie ;) spelling is
"grey", although I went to school with a guy called Peter Gray.
Whatever makes you comfortable. I agree it is a grey area (watch out for the
.pun police!!), like colo(u)r, alumin(i)um and Mum (Mom for the US - I've
never understood this one), but no one really cares in this forum (unless an
Australian newspaper starts spelling like those darn yanks!!! Egads!! Is
nothing sacred?!?!)
The first time I ever used my Microsoft spell checker I had to "educate" it
with a few "correct" spellings. Nice one Billy-boy, but it was the *least* of
my problems with his marvelous products (typing this post after our work NT
server has gone down for the second time THIS MONTH!! - Time to sack the IT
manager I think!!)
Pete "Callaway"
(that's another one commonly "misspelt" in the US, but at least the golf clubs
and cars have it right ;)
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| (...) These days I think you can get a British English dictionary for MS products, or it may be a configuration selection. MS doesn't like my spelling also, though switching wouldn't work since I use a mixture of spellings. (25 years ago, 12-Nov-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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