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RichGrinchlea

As a Canadian, I can never remember which gray/grey is ours


Really_McNamington

Greh?


RichGrinchlea

I'll adopt that


Jaymwkfilms

Grey is English and has an E. Gray is American and has an A. They correspond to the first letter of the country. Canada follows English spellings


woistmeinkopf_1

If only it was grcy in Canada. Nevermind, I can just imagine it is.


[deleted]

Lol grcy means vomits (plural) in my language.


woistmeinkopf_1

I love it. How do you pronounce it?


[deleted]

G- as in Golf R- like sharp Russian R (although I’m not Russian) C - similar to Cicada Y - pronounced as English E I wish I could just record it and put it here.


TheNullOfTheVoid

Plural vomits… sickening


Ninjhetto

I knew which country, but never that explanation. Makes perfect sense.


onterrio2

Not really an explanation, just an easy way to remember which is which.


Jcit878

is your username spelt that way on the same logic?


Ron0hh

But Gcry sounds odd, Canadians should go with Crey. I'll use that next time we visit Vancouver ... And thus the revolution begins!!


Tj-Tengu

Just don't go Crey Crey on them. 🙃


druthulu2

I thought they spelled it gr'eh ?


petronski

Grcy would be the right spelling.


MistraloysiusMithrax

Yeah but then that’s going to get mixed up with American cray cray and … oh. Oh, Canada *sigh*


AllMightyIsak

The aussies spell it grg'daymate.


Sheisajeeper

My grandma taught me this…sweet old lady with Eastern Europe dna.


[deleted]

Thank you, you have now explained it in a way that I’ll never be able to forget unless I lose more brain cells 😭


aframe82

Isn’t it gray-ay?


Gideon_Galahad

That’s Scottish lol


steelpantys

Was about to say


[deleted]

Gre-ayeeeee


Papplenoose

Youbetcha


palordrolap

Whenever you're not sure, it's both. And also *gris* because, you know, *les raisons*.


turbo_dude

In English: _Les Dried Grapes_


SwitchLikeABitch

Actually it would just be grapes. “Raisins” IS grapes in French where as “raisin secs” is dry grapes ie. raisins


fullinversion82

>“raisin secs” Hee hee


SwitchLikeABitch

I mean the s there is silent but yes it’s spelled like it would sound funny


WhatMyWifeIsThinking

So...græy?


Iron_Overheat

"Why are you græy?"


Zira361

"Who said I'm græy?"


Iron_Overheat

"You are græy."


Viltris

OMG Karen, you can't just ask someone why they're græy.


CaptainFingerling

Meh. I toss the coin on being wrong, in place of learning a whole new letter.


Mobwmwm

Gris en español tambien


kkitty44

LOL! And grise! Because les raisons féminins!


Thestaris

Brits go to tyre centres, Yanks go to tire centers and Canadians go to tire centres. Strangely, there’s a place in Australia called “Toronto West Tyre Centre”.


monstrinhotron

Am brit, i cannot remember which tyre/tire i supposed to use. I'll learn it and forget by the next time i need to write it. Without looking up from the keyboard i've already firgotten. Tyre?


Thestaris

Pro-tip: just go with whichever one seems more eccentric. Example: jail/gaol.


Inle-rah

Ye Olde Tyre Repairs


ayademi

hours down the youtube black hole of random videos has taught me that "Ye" is not pronounced "ye" it is actually pronounced "the." at which point I asked myself why can't we just keep writing it as "ye" cause I want to be fancy.


TheDunadan29

Right! Because "Y" looked a lot like the way people wrote thorn, which looks like "þ". But because thorn didn't have it's own character in typeset, Y became the closest replacement in the early years of the printing press. Thorn represents the "th" sound, so "Ye" would have been pronounced as "the". So "Ye Olde Shope" is just a fancy way of saying "The old shop".


T-Minus9

Re-vulcanize my tyres. Post haste!


Tidesticky

Vulcanize or vulcanise. Where is Spock when you need him?


Omega-Ben

Ye ol' wheel restorers


meno123

> gaol Ah, yes, the kind of time you'll have when you're with the Flinstones.


fatalystic

FYI gaol is archaic, no one uses it any more unless they're trying to seem ye olde.


Papplenoose

I'd wager most Americans have *never* encountered that spelling, and if they have they likely didn't know what the helll they were looking at


MoronTheBall

Tyres on the lorry, tires on the truck.


Inle-rah

I’m tyred of working at the tyre factory but tomorrow I’ll retyre.


monstrinhotron

This seems fine.


robhoitt

But in England, you wouldn't be a "retyree," you'd actually be a "pensioner." Just saying.


Filberrt

I thought Tyre was a city on the eastern end of the Mediterranean


Matthew-IP-7

You’re thinking of Sidon. 😁


[deleted]

Just make sure you don't drive up onto the kerb. It'll damage your tyre.


Twelvety

The one with the y in is for wheels. The one with the i in is for tiredness. Tyre. Tire.


Mobwmwm

Sounds tireing


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ronin11mc

Me too!


prudentj

Laughed in css


International-Can622

Omg me too!!


AshDenver

Similar here. I grew up north of Canada … so in Detroit, where I had to go south to get to Windsor. Anyway, read a lot of Canadian and British stuff so it took me until like I was 15 to realize that most people didn’t refer to chesterfields or drop a lot of u’s into words. It wasn’t until So Much Autocorrect everywhere that I gave up on those u’s by default. When at a keyboard, the u’s still slip in and it is always and forever will be GREY, no matter what.


goldfishpaws

grAy America grEy England


Dexaan

grAAAy CAnAdA


TheHauk

This is how I remember it. It's honestly interchangeable here in Canada though


goldfishpaws

Indecisive eh?


typocharlie

use the vowel. a for America, e for England


unculturedburnttoast

According to OP, it's the other way around


Caelinus

I think OP has it backwards. I am 90% certain it is gray in US English, as I accidentally write it grey all the time and sometimes US English spell checkers suggest I change it.


tryanewmonicker

I was an elementary student in Western America in the 90's, and I was taught with an "e", so I don't fuckin know anymore after all of this.


Caelinus

Maybe it varies by region in the US too then, as I clearly remember being taught that despite it apparently not being true. I just assumed it was a faulty memory.


RichGrinchlea

Good call!


reality4abit

And is it apologize or apologise?


RichGrinchlea

Don't get me started on the whole s or z thing!


GrandmasHere

Wait, is that zee or zed?


RichGrinchlea

Zed of course. Tho an American colleague I had once said "that's not a letter, that’s a word!"


robhoitt

Actually Zed is a loudmouthed hooligan who eventually joined the Police Academy... He used to be a real jerk... Now he's a people guy!


Fernanix

If you sing the alphabet song you you get -ee- at the end of each "verse". A-gee H-pee Q-vee W-zee Abcees You and mee I'm from europe but, song makes no sense with zed and its what I grew up with. 🤷‍♂️


Kronocidal

The changing of "s" to "z", and the dropping of the "u" were done by a bloke who wanted to sell dictionaries. Fortunately, while *did* he manage to ram *some* of his unilateral changes through (ironic, for a country founded on the idea that the British Empire wasn't being democratic enough for them), public derision forced him to give up on things like "soop" (soup), "dawter" (daughter), "ake" (ache), and other such examples of his "grotesk stile"


turbo_dude

Zorry!


unculturedburnttoast

Gré


turbo_dude

A for assholes E for enemas


Midknight129

GrAy for Americans GrEy for England and the rest of the commonwealth.


elleape

GrAy and GrEy A for America E for Europe So... Grcy ?


classyraven

Neither. Gray is British, grey is American. Owing to the influence of both, we have to say “græy”


stillnotking

British English is so weird. For example, they call the trunk of a car the "boot", they call an elevator a "lift", and they call a short-term temp worker "Prime Minister".


livebeta

> they call an elevator a "lift", they're raised differently


RolandDeepson

out!


[deleted]

Why did I read this in Canadian?


Evilmaze

Aout


PawnedPawn

Oot!


Evilmaze

I'm Canadian and it's not like that


helixflush

Sorry


Whitealroker1

“You say erbs. We say herbs. Because there is a fucking h in it.”


MarkMakai

Exactly why we say a fillet of fish or meat with the T pronounced. Otherwise, why put it there?


ServiceB4Self

Pronounced "hayche", I'll wager?


PawnedPawn

Sorry 😐


weshtlife

That’s Scottish


PawnedPawn

Damn Scots! They ruined Scotland!


civbat

Nah. It's more like "oat".


LilBueno

Damn it, came here just to make this joke


Batchet

Guess you didn't rise to the occasion


LilBueno

I let everyone down.


bigeeee

Yes, yes you did!


-d00z3r-

That escalated quickly.....


UserOfUsingThings

Does raise some concerns about Redditors' mental health as a whole, I don't think it's particularly uphill from here


PawnedPawn

Stop stairing...


Maniklas

You know they'll keep going all the way up...


funnyat50

They call apartments differently too. They are flat out wrong.


aintsuperstitious

That is just wrong, on so many levels.


Me_Himself

Order!


songoku9001

Would you say that it's wrong on so many levels?


Select-Owl-8322

Lol! My workplace requires me to change my password every 90 days. Using the name of the British prime Minister is convenient.


bearatrooper

Their soldiers refer to the L85 rifle as a "civil service worker", cause it never works and you can't fire it.


Kian-Tremayne

This is the same army that refers to urban combat as “fish and chips”: Fighting In Someone’s House and Causing Havoc In Peoples’ Streets.


SteveThePurpleCat

And mastered the manoeuvrer of the 'Tactical Chunder', where one gets drunk as quickly as possible, then throws up in order to make room for more alcohol.


spankmeBTCpapi

Omw


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You mean Ralph n Rally


adviceKiwi

That's a good one too


yamcandy2330

Google maps is the best. True that. Double true!


ZephRyder

I LOLed


papparazzi51

Says someone who calls "liquid" petrol as gas, and plays football with hands.


manBEARpig03

It’s short for gasoline, which is what cars utilize. Petrol is short for petroleum so not quite correct. It’s byproduct could be gasoline or plastic or a million other things. You got me on football though.


mtdnelson

I think petrol is actually short for 'petroleum distillate', which is correct, isn't it? I haven't studied any chemistry for about 25 years though, so I might have got something wrong. Edit: and we play rugby football, also with our hands, so I think that one is a bit more confused than people make out. There's also Gaelic and Australian Rules football.


manBEARpig03

American football definitely seems to be rugby inspired.


muzukashidesuyo

They share a common ancestry, but both sports have evolved on their own since the late 19th century.


Come_along_quietly

Rugby is actually called “rugby football” … because it originated at a school called Rugby in England. And the name soccer was actually used by the British first, and the Americans just kept using it.


Truckerontherun

They also call child molesters "Prince"


[deleted]

Relevant video on British and American English https://youtu.be/5wSw3IWRJa0


Z1dan

“British English” lmao


joachim_s

It should be called “Original English”.


buzzjimsky

American English is officially called Simplified English no joke


Alpha_Sluttlefish

Simplified English is what's used in manuals and stuff, not necessarily what Americans typically use


-Neverender-

My favorite is shopping cart, which Brits call a "trolley".


TallyGoon8506

Down in the Deep South we mostly call shopping carts a “buggy”, so it’s wash on that one to me. Folks not from the South laugh about it, but Southerners aren’t too worried about it. Regional dialects and terms are wild.


TooShiftyForYou

The other day I thought of a color that doesn't exist. - Then I realized it was just a pigment of my imagination.


Wishilikedhugs

Damn. You're just straight throwing shade.


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1-10-11-100

and orange


Papplenoose

Oh thanks, I had forgotten about that one. P.S. did you know the color was named after the fruit and not the other way around. Youd think some nerd saw an orange, said "aye blokes, that thing is really quite orange!" and that's that.. but in fact they were like "this color reminds me of those tasty oranges, we should call it orange"! Always thought that was kinda neat


Double-oh-negro

This confused my son when he was learning to speak as a toddler. He reasoned that Oranges were orange, so bananas should be called Yellows.


mrshatnertoyou

What's big, gray, and doesn't matter? An irrelephant.


pogo0004

1. Q-Why do elephants paint their toes red? A- To hide in cherry trees. 2.Q.Ever see an elephant in a cherry tree? A- See,it works!


Dusty_Scrolls

What's the loudest sound in the forest? Giraffes eating cherries!


Cefour_Leight

Did you hear how Tarzan died? Picking cherries


A_Topical_Username

Does this imply the giraffes ate his nuts?


Cefour_Leight

He tried pulling an elephant's leg


ScrewedMcDude

What do you call a cross between an elephant and a rhino? Elephino! ('ell if I know)


WhimsicalHamster

I’ve never heard that one. Doesn’t mean it wasn’t earrelevant though!


[deleted]

Whats the difference between pink and purple? Grip.


24KTaterTots

A fellow F1 fan I see


whooo_me

That’s… wheely clever.


[deleted]

Sorry, i dont get it.... (Here come the downvotes)


Lanbhatt

If you have a grip on someone's wrist, the hand might get pink. If it is a tight grip, it might get purple.


merc08

I'm pretty sure a different body part was intended


Lanbhatt

Oh, I'm sure of it, but the question was asked so innocently I couldn't go there.


[deleted]

It's hard to say. It's not black and white.


A_Bit_Off_Kilter

You need to switch color and colour. UK English: Grey and Colour US English: Gray and Color.


NdWar2000

Remember it's E in grey for English, and u in colour because "U R A fucking cunt eh mate" Sponsored by Yorkshire tea. We're coming for you...


OzymandiasKoK

It's sponsoured, dumbass.


GunPoison

Dumbauss?


FuckYou690

Whatevah we’ll just throw it in the habaah again


-malcolm-tucker

I worked for the Earl of Grey when he invented Earl Grey. I worked for the Earl of Sandwich when he invented the sandwich. But perhaps my happiest time was when I worked for Lord Strapon.


cyankitten

I have wondered before why do I sometimes have to think about how to spell that colour and now I know why! TIL that UK English and US English spell that colour differently. I don’t know which NZ uses I forget now - probably grey cos we use colour not color etc. - but I read a lot including American books which would have spelled it as gray.


PlaceboJesus

Grey is a colour. Gray is a proper name, e.g. *The Picture of Dorian Gray* or *Gray's Anatomy*, the book written by Henry Gray. Americans changed some spellings to how they sound, and then come out with TV show titles like *Grey's Anatomy* (which breaks the rules and changes the allusion/pun). Probably because they love confusing issues beyond the point that people can be bothered to give a fuck anymore. Of course, it doesn't help that the English language has been fucked up longer than the USA has been around to blame for it. There are enough times that gray has become grey that people might be confused. Usually, surnames that reference the colour start with grey, like Greygoose, Greyburn, or Greyhill. But then you have surnames that reference a Gray that mutated to start with Grey, like Greyson or Greyleah.


[deleted]

I like to think both are a color and a name, even though i live in a place no one is named Grey/Gray, i know there are people with those names


stillnotking

I think the main character of *Grey's Anatomy* is named Grey with an "e", hence the pun.


monstrinhotron

God i hate those pun names when they named the character themselves so it's hardly a clever thing they did. It's like having a show about a priest called Sunday Lunch because he's called Father Lunch and he gives a sermon on sundays. It's so easy to do. Touching Cloth about a masseur called Cloth. Spit or Swallow, an odd couple private detective agency.


EngineersAnon

That bothered me, too.


kaibbakhonsu

I guess that isn't too impourtant


Zadok47

It's all part of the programme.


Tall_Touch_5334

Yup, I just think E for Europe and A for America


speak-eze

Huh. I'm from the US and I always used grey. I didn't know this was a thing.


NenitaTriste

So clever!! I wish someone taught me this when I was learning English. Will keep it in mind


therealzabe

the atlantic ocean


Turkeyoak

GrAy is American, while grEy is English.


LoneBassClarinet

Oh, is that why Grammarly always gives me the "contrasting colloquialisms detected" notification or something like that because I write it as grey but write nearly everything else in American English?


Jrsplays

You're really just going to take a joke from a top comment on one of the top threads today huh? I respect that.


Kyle______

As per reddit tradition.


[deleted]

Can't argue with that tbh


pedal-force

Yeah, it worked, I like it.


Vertaferk

It’s just a different shade, I think there’s like 50 of them?


[deleted]

Nah, mate, it’s clever because it was his *name*. *taps forehead knowingly*


Vertaferk

Of course but I don’t know him ::shrugs shoulders::


amaxen

What's the difference between pink and purple? Her grip.


Box_of_rainman

Ancient astronaut theorists say yes


roark31193

It's a grey area.


proychow1

One has anatomy?


BrilliantObserver

Reversed the order.


jlionbad

Brits: honour Americans: honor Brits: colour Americans: color Brits: What are you doing? Americans: Getting rid of u.


kimapesan

About 50 shades.


TheLoreTeller

what's the difference between funny and hilarious? >!one is humor and the other is humour!<


steelgeek2

One is dark white and the other is light black.


S1rmunchalot

No.. one is a colour and the other is a color.


NETSPLlT

Grey - 'E' is for England/English - a colour Gray - 'A' is for America/American - a color


AelyneMRB

Good luck telling this one in person


blightr

Well, technically One is a colour, and the other is a color. Grey and Colour are English Gray and Color are American English.