Comments on: Gray or Grey: How Important Is American Spelling?

By: Just Write Blog Carnival July 17, 2009 Edition | Incurable Disease of Writing

Fri, 15 Jan 2010 06:02:38 +0000

[...] Bram presents Gray or Grey: How Important Is American Spelling? posted at Hyper Modern [...]

By: Grey

Grey — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 11:16:08 +0000

I read that according to a survey conducted both in the U.S. and England, many people believe grey is an actual color perceived as the hue of “silver”, and gray is a sliding scale of values from black to white. This was believed in both reasons so it appears that aside from grammatical reasoning there is a connotative attitude toward the two

By: Thursday

Thursday — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 13:07:50 +0000

@Kim, Thanks for the tip about the preference for American English in China. I wish it was easier to train ourselves to write both American and British English equally well, but going back and forth can be difficult.

By: Kim

Kim — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 12:54:17 +0000

I feel your pain about the spell checkers. I have set my “global template” to British Spelling, but even the British Bank I work for can’t be bothered to set up the settings on our computers correctly. It seems that US spelling is going to win the day. In China it is reported that American English language schools are considered more superior to British English one’s. Pity indeed (but then again it is only spelling and there are far more important things to worry about!)