the pronunciation of Gray/Grey

[Lynne Murphy]

Douglas Bigham said:

>I'm not saying, nor was I ever saying, that the OED should insert two
>completely seperate entries for 'grey' and 'gray'.  I'm saying that I,
>personally, use them differently.


Nor was I saying anything about the OED, per se, I was talking about
the human mental lexicon, and whether there are really two "words"
gray/grey, or just two spellings for the same word that happen to get
distinguished in writing, but not in speech (i.e., real language!).

Lynne
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