Baby Blip!!

A drippy gray/grey day. To brighten things up you may look upon the sweet smile of my neighbor's baby girl, Taylor. Isn't she a sweetie? I popped in for a minute to see her and her mom. Mom works at home, so I didn't stay long. But, this brightened up my day considerably!!

I had a momentary brain lapse as to the spelling of the word gray. Gray? Grey? Hmmmm Now I know.


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 other major varieties of English.
Both spellings, which have origins in the Old English gr?g, have existed hundreds of years. The American-British distinction did not develop until the 19th century.
Gray became the preferred spelling in American English around 1825.

The phrase grey area/gray area, meaning an area having characteristics of two extremes, may be spelled either way. Greyhound is always spelled with an e.