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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.
 
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