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fishonjazz said:
When is the correct time to use each spelling?
I have always been confused by that.
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My understanding is gray is a color, grey is tea haha. I virtually never use grey but I've heard that if you want to call someone old you would use grey.

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Who you calling grey?

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kiri.de.carlos said:
My understanding is gray is a color, grey is tea haha. I virtually never use grey but I've heard that if you want to call someone old you would use grey.

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Maybe grey is correct when used as a name of something.
Mr grey. Grey wolf. Etc
 
From the Grammarist:

https://grammarist.com/spelling/gray-grey/

Gray vs. grey

Gray and grey are different spellings of the same word, and both are used throughout the English-speaking world. But gray is more common in American English, while grey is more common in all the other main varieties of English. In the U.K., for instance, grey appears about twenty times for every instance of gray. In the U.S. the ratio is reversed.

Both spellings, which have origins in the Old English grǽg, have existed hundreds of years. Grey gained ascendancy in all varieties of English in the early 18th century, but its dominance as the preferred form was checked when American writers adopted gray about a century later. . . .[T}his change in American English came around 1825. Since then, both forms have remained fairly common throughout the English-speaking world, but the favoring of gray in the U.S. and grey everywhere else has remained consistent.

Some people make their own distinctions between gray and grey. . . There is nothing wrong with these preferences, but they are not borne out in broader usage. For most people, gray and grey are simply different spellings of the same word.
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Yay, I learned something new. My brain can now shut off for the rest of the day.
 
FOJ is my boy but every time he spells, "a lot" as "allot" it makes me want to shove a needle under one of my fingernails.
 
VINYLONE said:
FOJ is my boy but every time he spells, "a lot" as "allot" it makes me want to shove a needle under one of my fingernails.
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It's my phone doing it! I use the Swype version of texting and allot is what it chooses for me when I swipe my finger over the correct letters.

It doesn't even give me an alternate of a lot.
 
I used to get confused between a lot and alot, but I read a blog post about using it incorrectly (the Alot monster) and it cured me for life. :D
 
I sometimes get mixed up with ally, allay and alloy - - the only one I'm pretty sure I spelled correctly is alloy. I know it has something to do with metal. Or is it medal? Or maybe mettle or meddle.
 
moevillini said:
I sometimes get mixed up with ally, allay and alloy - - the only one I'm pretty sure I spelled correctly is alloy. I know it has something to do with metal. Or is it medal? Or maybe mettle or meddle.
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Alloy is a mixture of 2 or more metals. =) alley, is like a bowling alley or the road between houses in the same block. Ally is a bank, or also your friend in war.

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kiri.de.carlos said:
Alloy is a mixture of 2 or more metals. =) alley, is like a bowling alley or the road between houses in the same block. Ally is a bank, or also your friend in war.

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But you skipped allay, which is to calm or reassure, as in allay your fears.
 
When people use the term "bad guy"

Like when people say they carry a gun in case they have to shoot a bad guy.

This happened a lot in the Navy. I worked on weapon systems and most of the time the target would be referred to as "the bad guy." It was annoying. I didn't need the moralization. I worked on shipboard defensive weapons. It doesn't matter if the target is a good guy or a bad guy, it is a target that if not destroyed will impact the ship that I'm on and kill hundreds or thousands of people, one of whom might be me. The U.S. uses our military not for defense, but for offense. The people who could potentially attack a U.S. Navy warship might actually be defending themselves. They might be "the good guys" but that shouldn't matter to a Navy Fire Controlman. Thier job is to "fight the ship" and use their weapon systems to defeat our enemies. If there is a target it should be called "a target" and engaged based on the current rules of engagement. Period, end of story. I don't care who or what it is and I don't need to tell myself it's a bad guy. If the target needs to be destroyed then it needs to be destroyed.
 
Gameface said:
When people use the term "bad guy"

Like when people say they carry a gun in case they have to shoot a bad guy.

This happened a lot in the Navy. I worked on weapon systems and most of the time the target would be referred to as "the bad guy." It was annoying. I didn't need the moralization. I worked on shipboard defensive weapons. It doesn't matter if the target is a good guy or a bad guy, it is a target that if not destroyed will impact the ship that I'm on and kill hundreds or thousands of people, one of whom might be me. The U.S. uses our military not for defense, but for offense. The people who could potentially attack a U.S. Navy warship might actually be defending themselves. They might be "the good guys" but that shouldn't matter to a Navy Fire Controlman. Thier job is to "fight the ship" and use their weapon systems to defeat our enemies. If there is a target it should be called "a target" and engaged based on the current rules of engagement. Period, end of story. I don't care who or what it is and I don't need to tell myself it's a bad guy. If the target needs to be destroyed then it needs to be destroyed.
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I prefer to kill only good guys. My therapist thinks I'm sick. I think he needs to stop trying to escape from my basement.
 
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