# Pitting Honeybadger **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [March 7, 2018, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-honeybadger/810183 "2018-03-07T15:40:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 46
**Author:** ![Kron](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kron/32/12444_2.png) [@Kron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kron)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2024, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-honeybadger/810183/901 "2024-02-19T20:40:13Z")
> [@thorny\_locust](#): > > > [@Riemann](#): > > > > If you want to fulfill your grand ambition to be important in the history of human intellectual endeavor, the most useful thing you could do would be to make yourself into a sausage and feed yourself to someone with more functioning neurons. > > I would like to congratulate you on being inventively nasty in the Pit. Seconded. ---
**Author:** ![I\_Love\_Me\_Vol.I](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/i_love_me_vol.i/32/521_2.png) [@I\_Love\_Me\_Vol.I](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/I_Love_Me_Vol.I)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2024, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-honeybadger/810183/902 "2024-02-19T21:33:29Z")
> [@scudsucker](#): > > Thanks. A rescue! > > But stil I should use US spelling on a US board. Baaah… it’s my impression that British and American spellings are pretty interchangeable on the SDMB and increasingly, in usage in general. ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2024, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-honeybadger/810183/903 "2024-02-19T21:35:15Z")
> [@I\_Love\_Me\_Vol.I](#): > > Baaah… it’s my impression that British and American spellings are pretty interchangeable on the SDMB and increasingly, in usage in general. I never mind when someone uses a British spelling. We’re not all Americans. It’s cool. I **am** amused when someone uses an American spelling and someone else “corrects” them. 😆 ---
**Author:** ![scudsucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scudsucker/32/14101_2.png) [@scudsucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scudsucker)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2024, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-honeybadger/810183/904 "2024-02-19T21:53:22Z")
My duty is but to serve. If it turns out to be to serve your sense of humour, so be it. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2024, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-honeybadger/810183/905 "2024-02-19T21:53:50Z")
On this board it can be a grey area. 😁 ---
**Author:** ![scudsucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scudsucker/32/14101_2.png) [@scudsucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scudsucker)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2024, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-honeybadger/810183/906 "2024-02-19T21:55:36Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > grey \* gray ---
**Author:** ![Great\_Antibob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47c2d/32.png) [@Great\_Antibob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Great_Antibob)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2024, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-honeybadger/810183/907 "2024-02-19T21:58:12Z")
\*grauy? ---
**Author:** ![Riemann](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/riemann/32/3133_2.png) [@Riemann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Riemann)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2024, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-honeybadger/810183/908 "2024-02-19T21:58:26Z")
> [@I\_Love\_Me\_Vol.I](#): > > Baaah… DNA = Deoxyribonucleic Acid. RNA = Ribonucleic Acid. (Just getting ahead of the next Baaah.) ---
**Author:** ![crowmanyclouds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crowmanyclouds/32/19884_2.png) [@crowmanyclouds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crowmanyclouds)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2024, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-honeybadger/810183/909 "2024-02-19T21:59:51Z")
Ghrahey . . . but that’s just cheating at Scrabble. ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2024, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-honeybadger/810183/910 "2024-02-19T22:04:52Z")
> [@scudsucker](#): > > > [@Czarcasm](#): > > > > grey > > - gray Depends on how aesthetically pleasing or esthetically revolting one finds it. The science of archaeology is riddled with archeologists’ disputes on this point. it depends on how greige the items are. ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2024, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-honeybadger/810183/911 "2024-02-19T22:05:48Z")
ignore this ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2024, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-honeybadger/810183/912 "2024-02-19T22:16:50Z")
It’s funny because I’m American but I always prefer the spellings “grey” and “axe”. They just look correct to me and I don’t know why. ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2024, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-honeybadger/810183/913 "2024-02-19T22:33:25Z")
> [@Riemann](#): > > US spelling is feces. Aside from the unnecessary _u_ in many words, I’m in agreement with you. ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2024, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-honeybadger/810183/914 "2024-02-19T22:38:15Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > Aside from the unnecessary _u_ in many words, I’m in agreement with you… Wourds ---
**Author:** ![Riemann](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/riemann/32/3133_2.png) [@Riemann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Riemann)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2024, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-honeybadger/810183/915 "2024-02-19T22:44:48Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > Aside from the unnecessary _u_ in many words, I’m in agreement with you. I never tell people I come from the UK, they just ass me. ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2024, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-honeybadger/810183/916 "2024-02-19T22:49:36Z")
> [@HoneyBadgerDC](#): > > > [@crowmanyclouds](#): > > > > Or, to put it more succinctly, you want to have a discussion on the science of epigenetics > > Yes some of the aspects of it but not all of them Well, then, if you’re actually interested in a subject, why wouldn’t you read about it? You could even take a class… It feels like “Hey, I don’t know what this word means. I could look it up… naaaahhh, I’ll go out on the street and gather a dozen strangers into a group and ask them all at once, not listen to what they say, and then argue with them about it!” . eta: (“With any luck, they’ll still be trying to educate me long after I’ve stopped caring and walked away…”) ---
**Author:** ![scudsucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scudsucker/32/14101_2.png) [@scudsucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scudsucker)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2024, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-honeybadger/810183/917 "2024-02-19T23:02:07Z")
> [@Riemann](#): > > I never tell people I come from the UK, they just ass me. This statement needs a little love from those of us in British English speaking countries. Although we would use “arse” even if it breaks the joke ---
**Author:** ![Kron](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kron/32/12444_2.png) [@Kron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kron)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2024, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-honeybadger/810183/918 "2024-02-19T23:12:51Z")
> [@Atamasama](#): > > It’s funny because I’m American but I always prefer the spellings “grey” and “axe”. They just look correct to me and I don’t know why. Same here. ---
**Author:** ![Mighty\_Mouse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mighty_mouse/32/7776_2.png) [@Mighty\_Mouse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mighty_Mouse)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2024, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-honeybadger/810183/919 "2024-02-19T23:17:10Z")
I’ve been living in the USA for 30+ years after growing up in a British English (mostly) using country and this is the first time I’m realizing that there are other ways to spell grey and axe! ---
**Author:** ![thorny\_locust](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thorny_locust/32/431_2.png) [@thorny\_locust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thorny_locust)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2024, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-honeybadger/810183/920 "2024-02-19T23:41:30Z")
I don’t even know which way I spell gre/a/y. I’m pretty sure it varies, and think it depends on the mood I’m in. I think I usually spell axe with the e, but am not entirely sure of that either. I doubt there’s any evolutionary advantage to using one over the other, in either case. Though there may be one in being able to use an axe; or even in being able to spell. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-honeybadger/810183.md?page=45) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-honeybadger/810183.md?page=47)