{"id":32771,"date":"2018-04-25T20:16:49","date_gmt":"2018-04-25T20:16:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/?p=32771"},"modified":"2018-04-25T20:17:42","modified_gmt":"2018-04-25T20:17:42","slug":"english-grey-and-gray","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/english-grey-and-gray\/","title":{"rendered":"English: grey and gray"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Tutoring English, different spellings have novelty value. The tutor mentions one of his favorite pairs.<\/h1>\n<p>Looking up <em>gray<\/em>, my two Canadian dictionaries give the defintion<\/p>\n<div style=\"background-color:#454545;color:#ededed;padding:16px;white-space:pre-wrap;font-size:130%;font-family:monospace\">\n<span style=\"font-size:130%\">gray:<\/span><\/p>\n<p>grey.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\"><\/p>\n<p>Merriam-Webster says<\/p>\n<div style=\"background-color:#454545;color:#ededed;padding:16px;white-space:pre-wrap;font-size:130%;font-family:monospace\">\n<span style=\"font-size:130%\">gray:<\/span><\/p>\n<p>also grey&#8230;.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\"><\/p>\n<p>I guess they mean the same. I usu. write <i>grey<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>Source:<\/p>\n<p>Mish, Frederick C. (ed). <i>The Merriam-Webster Dictionary<\/i>. Springfield: Merriam-Webster, 2004.<\/p>\n<p>Gilmour, Lorna (ed). <i>Collins Essential Canadian English Dictionary and Thesaurus<\/i>. Glasgow: HarperCollins, 2006.<\/p>\n<p>Barber, Katherine et al. <i>Oxford Canadian Dictionary of Current English<\/i>. Don Mills: Oxford University Press, 2005.<\/p>\n<p>Jack of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\">Oracle Tutoring by Jack and Diane,<\/a> Campbell River, BC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tutoring English, different spellings have novelty value. The tutor mentions one of his favorite pairs. Looking up gray, my two Canadian dictionaries give the defintion gray: grey. Merriam-Webster says gray: also grey&#8230;. I guess they mean the same. I usu. &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/english-grey-and-gray\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">English: grey and gray<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1],"tags":[2869],"class_list":["post-32771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","category-uncategorized","tag-gray-vs-grey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32771","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32771"}],"version-history":[{"count":37,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32771\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32808,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32771\/revisions\/32808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}