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Dusklight Posted 19 years ago
Grammar
The colour between black and white- grey? gray?
Let me know what you think. 
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grey GB, gray US
- grey GB, gray US
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Dusklightwhich is more common?That depends where you live and what you read. Wikipedia chooses grey as the headword for its article and many US writers choose that spelling too.
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Bokeh"America" is commonly used and understood - but if you really insist, then in the United States and Canada, "gray" is more common, whereas in the United Kingdom and Northern Ireland "grey" is more common.Feebs11In AmericaAmerica is not a country.
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Feebs11Grey is the predoBokeh"America" is commonly used and understood - but if you really insist, then in the United States and Canada, "gray" is more common, whereas in the United Kingdom and Northern Ireland "grey" is more common.Feebs11In AmericaAmerica is not a country.
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I suggest you give up that fight, Bokah. It's universally understood to mean "The United States," like it or not. If you want to argue about it, post it in "Topic of the Moment" and don't take up that standard in the grammar section, okay?
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It's universally understood to mean "The United States,"which is not surprising since it's the only country in the world that has the word "America" in the full name of the country: "The United States of America". As far as abbreviated names of countries goes, it's not much different from using "Britain" for "Great Britain". And when we use the abbreviati
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