jbow
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Why is "S" spelled ess ? ...
What is the difference between gray and grey?
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Re: Why is "S" spelled ess ? ...
2014/05/09 20:28:59
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Further farther berg burg
You say potatoe, or is it pomme des terre?
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Re: Why is "S" spelled ess ? ...
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☄ Helpfulby jbow 2014/05/10 07:11:34
There is no "gray" in the Wikipedia. It is "grey" since that has been used since AD 700, and "gray" only came into use by America since 1825. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grey But if I had to say anything about either spelling which is correct it would be that "grey" is the color tending towards black (dark) and that "gray" is the color tending towards white (light). Thus to me "grey" is the darker side of a color while "gray" is the lighter side of a color that defines all colors of that sort between black and white. "S" is spelled "ess" because that is the way that you pronounce it, it is not "S" it is "ess".  Also with "grey" it is about how a person pronounces it, either "grey" like a short "a" (ah) or "gray" with a different pronunciation with a more longer "a" sound (aa). Also depicts emotion as in "The sky is tending towards grey" as in getting darker, horror, heaviness, foreboding, eerie and perhaps, while "The sky is tending towards gray" depicts the sky as lightning up in the future and towards the lightness of the day and brighter.
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craigb
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Re: Why is "S" spelled ess ? ...
2014/05/09 23:43:17
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jbow
Why is "S" spelled ess? And who's the mean bastage who spelled "lisp" with an "S???!" 
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Re: Why is "S" spelled ess ? ...
2014/05/10 06:17:39
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☄ Helpfulby bapu 2014/05/10 13:26:37
jbow
What is the difference between gray and grey?
One of them is spelled correctly.
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jbow
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Re: Why is "S" spelled ess ? ...
2014/05/10 07:18:37
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I always spel gray as grey. I'm glad I was doing it right.
I watched a trailer for a movie, "Gray State" yesterday and a video about it and I thought something was wrong. Maybe someone should tell them so they don't look like complete fools.
@ Craig.... you are quick with the wit. Lithp indeed!
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Re: Why is "S" spelled ess ? ...
2014/05/10 13:59:06
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S is not spelled ess.
Ess is the plural of es.
You can never have too manys s's.
But if you do you can apply a de-esser recursively until you just have e.
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Re: Why is "S" spelled ess ? ...
2014/05/10 14:45:20
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Some things are spelled with "gray" like grayling and some fish, perhaps birds I guess and some animals. I use whatever, because both are used nowadays. I like "gray" for color of different hues on a keyboard. I use "grey" for atmospheric things and like that I guess. ??
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craigb
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Re: Why is "S" spelled ess ? ...
2014/05/10 19:30:20
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I think in Canada it's spelled "greh."
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Re: Why is "S" spelled ess ? ...
2014/05/10 22:04:51
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craigb
jbow
Why is "S" spelled ess?
And who's the mean bastage who spelled "lisp" with an "S???!"
Someone who had trouble saying his T-H's?
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Re: Why is "S" spelled ess ? ...
2014/05/10 23:10:11
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Of course, sometimes "S" used to be spelled like a scripted "F."
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Re: Why is "S" spelled ess ? ...
2014/05/11 00:15:57
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You mean people ufed to talk like thif?
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Re: Why is "S" spelled ess ? ...
2014/05/11 00:17:11
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Next you'll be saying they had a lifp.
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