Pitting Honeybadger

[digs]

@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.

You obviously have a Saxon ancestor who passed down genes of that ƒlavour…

[Atamasama]

@digs

You obviously have a Saxon ancestor who passed down genes of that ƒlavour…

ROFL… In truth my ancestry (according to my DNA) would lean heavily that way so who knows.

[wolfpup]

@Monty

@Riemann

US spelling is feces.

Aside from the unnecessary u in many words, I’m in agreement with you.

Lots of wrds have letrs that are teknikly unnecessary,tho. Just ask our language exprt Dr Deth. Y rite out a bunch of unnecessary letrs like “an apple” when “a apl” is plainly enuf!

[Riemann]

@wolfpup

Just ask our language exprt Dr Deth.

I think DrDeth might be on sabbatical, but he made a helpful video.
DrDeth’s boss Andy delivering the line “the speech equivalent to just wearing underpants” is genius.

Kevin's Small Talk - The Office US

[Monty]

Those cute little proofs aren’t actually proofs. Oh, right. You just said that:

@wolfpup

Just ask our language exprt Dr Deth.

[Atamasama]

@wolfpup

Lots of wrds have letrs that are teknikly unnecessary,tho.

that enuf that

[EddyTeddyFreddy]

@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.

For me, “grey” and “gray” sound slightly different; the “e” is produced toward the front of the lower jaw, while the “a” comes from up toward the back of the mouth.

[Buck_Godot]

nm covered upthread

[Buck_Godot]

I had a mini existential crisis as a seven or eight years old, when I was trying to spell the light black color, and looked for help from a display on one side of the room that had the colors and their names which spelled it “Gray” but then noticed on the other side of the room another chart from a different company that spelled it “Grey”. Having had it drilled into my head that there was a right way to spell words (and the way I spelled them was invariably wrong) this blew my little mind.

[Atamasama]

@Buck_Godot

Having had it drilled into my head that there was a right way to spell words (and the way I spelled them was invariably wrong) this blew my little mind.

You finally saw that the world isn’t black and white, but different shades of graey.

(Or is it greay?)

[Pork_Rind]

græy?
gräy?

[Euphonious_Polemic]

Gra-eh?

[Atamasama]

The Canadian spelling, gotcha.

[Czarcasm]

It’s all roc and role to me.

[Riemann]

@Czarcasm

It’s all roc and role to me.

Quakers, Jehovah’s Witnesses, Sunni, Aspirin, Cocaine, LSD, Granite, Hoagie.

[thorny_locust]

@EddyTeddyFreddy

For me, “grey” and “gray” sound slightly different; the “e” is produced toward the front of the lower jaw, while the “a” comes from up toward the back of the mouth.

I think you’re right. For me, at least.

[DesertDog]

@EddyTeddyFreddy

For me, “grey” and “gray” sound slightly different; the “e” is produced toward the front of the lower jaw, while the “a” comes from up toward the back of the mouth.

One is in Received Pronunciation and the other in General American English accents.

[EddyTeddyFreddy]

Oh, hey, so I’m not crazy after all!

About that, at least.

[I_Love_Me_Vol.I]

@Kron

@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.

Me too… sorta. I always spell it “axe” but “grey/gray” I never know what to do so I randomly pick a spelling. But for the last 5 or 10 years I’ve been spelling words like “civilization” with an “s” instead of a “z”. It just feels correct.

ETA

@thorny_locust

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.

This.

[Ludovic]

Another vote for “Axe” and no particular way of spelling white-black.