[Ads-l] "Grey" in AmE

[Charles Law]

If you sey so, I agree.




On 3/4/16, 6:56 PM, "American Dialect Society on behalf of Mark Mandel" <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU on behalf of thnidu at GMAIL.COM> wrote:

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>Subject:      "Grey" in AmE
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>Part of a thread on a copyeditors' list I belong to:
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>Original post:
>On Mar 4, 2016 12:10 PM
>Subject: "Grey" not dead yet
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>> From the wild:
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>> "Grey is the new beige."
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>> ---Crate & Barrel
>http://www.crateandbarrel.com/special-features/how-we-create-natural-mix/1
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>> Maybe they like the visual effect of the e's in "grey," "beige," and
>"neutral."
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>My reply:
>So do I. Native AmE speaker, but I've used that particular British spelling
>for many years, for just that reason.
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>Others:
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>> I'd estimate that about a third of my American clients (mostly fiction
>writers), even when we specify AmE and use CMOS [Chicago Manual of Style]
>and M-W [Merriam-Webster], the whole nine yards, prefer grey over gray.
>It's fascinating to me, a UK-born Anglo-Canadian who has always used grey
>but has no problem switching to gray.
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>>> Grey is alive and well, even in AmE. I just sent a book to the printer
>for which that spelling was specified on the style sheet. US author. US
>copyeditor (not me, in this case). People are entitled to their preference,
>non?
>
>Mark Mandel
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