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(Google) Interesting Is it GREY or is it GRAY? Depends on where you live   (answers.google.com) divider line 274
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rancidPlasma 2008-07-26 05:50:51 PM  
It's GREY, and it's POP, silly!

 
Bob_Laublaw [TotalFark] 2008-07-26 05:55:23 PM  
In Canada, it's spelled 'Grauy'.

 
OldScotch [TotalFark] 2008-07-26 06:11:52 PM  
Bob_Laublaw: In Canada, it's spelled 'Grauy'.

Thread over.

 
real_headhoncho [TotalFark] 2008-07-26 06:23:35 PM  
Actually, in Canada, it is spelt Grey. And its a chesterfield, not a couch, and milk comes in bags, and our beer is better, and we're more liked that you, and we are running a surplus instead of a deficit, and... and...

 
plmyfngr 2008-07-26 06:26:40 PM  
nobody cares about Canada......nobody...

 
itazurakko [TotalFark] 2008-07-26 06:40:41 PM  
real_headhoncho: milk comes in bags

Milk comes in bags in the US too, if you work at a large cafeteria. Damn things are heavy.

/drinks pop instead

 
RobertBruce [TotalFark] 2008-07-26 06:45:07 PM  
IT'S SODA!

 
omadon667 [TotalFark] 2008-07-26 06:51:24 PM  
Its gray, because there's a farking long a in its pronunciation. Every other word that ends in ey is pronounced as a long e.

Link (new window)

 
TheGrayCat [TotalFark] 2008-07-26 06:52:34 PM  
It's GRAY - but I'm old.

And biased.

Hey, SHUT UP - thegraycat.com was already taken!

 
TheGrayCat [TotalFark] 2008-07-26 06:56:34 PM  
or, thegreycat.com was taken.

/had too much wine tonight
//Hey, SHUT UP!

 
IronTom [TotalFark] 2008-07-26 07:18:47 PM  
Bob_Laublaw: In Canada, it's spelled 'Grauy'.

Seems more like "Gay"

 
IronTom [TotalFark] 2008-07-26 07:20:30 PM  
It's gray

www.ufobc.ca

 
Chariset [TotalFark] 2008-07-26 08:01:42 PM  
I grew up with 'gray,' but I think 'grey' looks better

 
Epsilon [TotalFark] 2008-07-26 08:05:29 PM  
I was taught "gray" and I don't care to hear anymore about this nonsense.

 
Joelogon [TotalFark] 2008-07-26 08:15:43 PM  
My people call it MAIZE.

 
Slaxl [TotalFark] 2008-07-26 08:21:26 PM  
omadon667: Its gray, because there's a farking long a in its pronunciation. Every other word that ends in ey is pronounced as a long e.

Link (new window)


Grey is on that list.

I don't know which one i'm supposed to use, which is English and which is American English? I think I use gray, now i'll never know.

 
Slaxl [TotalFark] 2008-07-26 08:22:48 PM  
omadon667: Its gray, because there's a farking long a in its pronunciation. Every other word that ends in ey is pronounced as a long e.

Link (new window)


Actually, there's a precendent which I just saw on the list, Prey/Pray, Grey/Gray, both pronounced the same.

 
real_headhoncho [TotalFark] 2008-07-26 08:42:29 PM  
Slaxl: omadon667: Its gray, because there's a farking long a in its pronunciation. Every other word that ends in ey is pronounced as a long e.

Link (new window)

Actually, there's a precendent which I just saw on the list, Prey/Pray, Grey/Gray, both pronounced the same.


Actually, they are pronounced differently. Grey is pronounced with a static "aaa", while Gray is pronouced with an acending "aaa". I picked up the difference of saying "grey" as a color and "Gray" as a name.

 
klparrot 2008-07-26 08:47:44 PM  
real_headhoncho: Actually, in Canada, it is spelt Grey. And its a chesterfield, not a couch, and milk comes in bags, and our beer is better, and we're more liked that you, and we are running a surplus instead of a deficit, and... and...

- spelled
- chesterfield is only regional/generational
- milk doesn't come in bags out west
- apparently we're not running a surplus anymore (grr)

 
Angry Drunk Bureaucrat [TotalFark] 2008-07-26 09:00:25 PM  
Is somebody cheating at Scrabble again?

 
gideon 2008-07-26 09:02:34 PM  
Slow day on Fark, huh?

 
badfish515 2008-07-26 09:02:37 PM  
colour=color
honour=honor

 
FarkinFarker 2008-07-26 09:02:45 PM  
Aither wey.

 
puffy999 [TotalFark] 2008-07-26 09:02:49 PM  
real_headhoncho: r i

Your beer is not better.

/well, your macrobrews may be

 
xopher.tm 2008-07-26 09:03:15 PM  
Ghey.

 
Euell Gibbons 2008-07-26 09:03:20 PM  
ghey

 
SBinRR 2008-07-26 09:04:05 PM  
real_headhoncho: and milk comes in bags,

Yeah, it comes in bags down here too.
That big ass bag with four nozzles underneath the female cow.

 
Samwise Gamgee 2008-07-26 09:04:34 PM  
Gandalf the Grey.

 
skwerl 2008-07-26 09:05:12 PM  
If it's a bus or a dog, it's GREY.
If it's a color (or shade, black and white aren't technically colors) then it's GRAY.

At least this is what I've been taught.

 
xopher.tm 2008-07-26 09:05:17 PM  
puffy999: Your beer is not better.

Canadian beer is pretty bad.

Sadly, it is, on average, better than most of ours.

 
The Slush 2008-07-26 09:06:31 PM  
omadon667: Its gray, because there's a farking long a in its pronunciation. Every other word that ends in ey is pronounced as a long e.

Link (new window)


Hmm, yeah, except for hey, obey, osprey, prey, etc etc. Did you even read that list? Or do you just pronounce those words incorrectly?

 
mccallcl 2008-07-26 09:06:37 PM  
Chariset: I grew up with 'gray,' but I think 'grey' looks better

Grey is classier

 
mccallcl 2008-07-26 09:07:18 PM  
also less like "gay"

 
badfish515 2008-07-26 09:07:32 PM  
IronTom: Bob_Laublaw: In Canada, it's spelled 'Grauy'.

Seems more like "Gay"


Yes we have fags, but we also have jobs, an economy, health care and people go to jail for crimes not smoking pot.

You see here in the gay ol Canada, we also have education and the people here wouldnt stand for our government to mix church and state. You Americana gladly take the bait and switch in the ass at every election. Fag and fear, vote for me...dont worry about all that other stuff, we are talking about fags here, thats important to a nations well being.


Anyways way to run with that. To bad you guys stopped learning to read or you would see the big picture and how pretty its going to be. Anyways, Its the US turn to be a 3rd world nation anyways.

 
HollandRivers [TotalFark] 2008-07-26 09:07:37 PM  
Its GREY. Thats the last I wanna hear about it!

 
puffy999 [TotalFark] 2008-07-26 09:08:16 PM  
Pardon me, do you have any grey poop on?

 
Get Lost 2008-07-26 09:08:26 PM  
I see a lower comment on the page, thinks there is a 'U' in color.

/Stupid Canadians.
//From BC.

 
Big Dave 2008-07-26 09:08:50 PM  
let's just throw away all the meanings and spellings of all words

It's just too difficult for the average American

Let's just Quack at each other all day long

Quack quack quack

/ya know what I'm sayin'??

 
Laz Long [TotalFark] 2008-07-26 09:09:10 PM  
It is grey because that was one of my first triumphs against authority. My teacher disagreed with me. I felt so awesome when Websters proved me right.

 
Pxtl 2008-07-26 09:09:38 PM  
puffy999: /well, your macrobrews may be

That's only because we pay so much goddamned liquor tax in Ontario that all the brews selling to this province have to have a decent enough product that we won't strangle them for selling them at a minimum price of $24 for a 24.

 
Oakland A's FTW! 2008-07-26 09:09:42 PM  
real_headhoncho: Actually, in Canada, it is spelt Grey. And its a chesterfield, not a couch, and milk comes in bags, and our beer is better, and we're more liked that you, and we are running a surplus instead of a deficit, and... and...


you have your own style of bacon.

 
badfish515 2008-07-26 09:10:05 PM  
plmyfngr: nobody cares about Canada......nobody...

Hmm, if that was the case American corps would be trying so hard to get in here. Actually americans dont care about Canada, but they hardly care about anything besides their own state, the ignorance is strong south of the border.

 
median eminence 2008-07-26 09:10:12 PM  
It all depends on the animal:

grey wolf

gray whale

 
Whatthefark 2008-07-26 09:10:16 PM  
You can call me Ray or you can call me Jay. Just don't ever call me grAy because it's spelled grEy.

 
Usernameaboutnothing 2008-07-26 09:10:47 PM  
badfish515: IronTom: Bob_Laublaw: In Canada, it's spelled 'Grauy'.

Seems more like "Gay"

Yes we have fags, but we also have jobs, an economy, health care and people go to jail for crimes not smoking pot.

You see here in the gay ol Canada, we also have education and the people here wouldnt stand for our government to mix church and state. You Americana gladly take the bait and switch in the ass at every election. Fag and fear, vote for me...dont worry about all that other stuff, we are talking about fags here, thats important to a nations well being.


Anyways way to run with that. To bad you guys stopped learning to read or you would see the big picture and how pretty its going to be. Anyways, Its the US turn to be a 3rd world nation anyways.


hockey sucks

 
tdpatriots12 2008-07-26 09:11:00 PM  
All I learned from this thread is that Canadians (the ones trolling in this thread) have a serious inferiority complex when it comes to the United States.

No. One. Gives. A. Shiat.

 
Usernameaboutnothing 2008-07-26 09:11:22 PM  
MrHacks: Former Governor of California GRAY Davis.


Voice Actress and Musician GREY Delisle.


MOBY GAMES

 
Get Lost 2008-07-26 09:12:49 PM  
badfish515: IronTom: Bob_Laublaw: In Canada, it's spelled 'Grauy'.

You see here in the gay ol Canada, we also have education and the people here wouldnt stand for our government to mix church and state.


Obviously an American^^^^^^.
Now wear a helmet on your bicycle,, unless you are of the Sikh religion. No mixing of church and state my ass.

/From BC.

 
Bevet 2008-07-26 09:12:55 PM  
Duck; Duck; Grey Duck

 
Pestifer 2008-07-26 09:13:25 PM  
...Unless you're talking about an African Grey parrot, in which case it's always "Grey".

 
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