What is the difference between gray and grey?
 
 

Further farther berg burg
You say potatoe, or is it pomme des terre?
Thom

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.
 

jbow

Why is "S" spelled ess?

 
And who's the mean bastage who spelled "lisp" with an "S???!" 
 

jbow
What is the difference between gray and grey?
 
 

One of them is spelled correctly.

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!
 
J

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.

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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I think in Canada it's spelled "greh."

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?