It’s spelt GREY.
Unless someone has decided to spell their name, Gray.
Grey - Wikipedia
Just noticed, the writer of this piece can’t even spell colour correctly.
Grey or gray
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For me, it’s Gray for color and Grey for Grey’s Anatomy 
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That interesting I kind of like that
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It’s gray in the US!
I use gray and I’m located in the US
Like a lot of words in the English language, it comes from German.
Tho to be honest, English (queen’s or USA) is a bastard language. There is very little that is genuinely “English” in english! A lot of it comes from, French, German, Latin.
Not sure why such a difference in spelling n pronunciation between UK n USA English.
Some great man once said… Never have 2 countries been separated so much by the same language … Something like that.
I did hear once, that during the signing of independence, they had a choice going forward of German or English, and English won. … Not sure how true that is?
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Same is with Portuguese (Portugal) and Portuguese (Brasil).
The spelling doesn’t matter so much to me, but really it depends on what context it is being used that would dictate the spelling.
As others have stated, grey is the European spelling, and gray is the US spelling. The same goes for color and colour.
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its a location this as others have mentioned.
Also, USA use Zs and we use Ss in words.
specialise/specialize as an example.
We laugh at some of your pronunciation of some words, like aluminium (alu minium / alumin um) lol but my fave is how.you say… Oregano hehehehe
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I didn’t know that that’s cool
I generally use an “S” in those situations.
O-Ray-Guh-no
How do you pronounce it?
Grey (Nothing else counts)
As long as meaning or content is understood… Gray or grey or zzzzz or sssss are fine .
In the global scenario, there will always be differences in language, we need to go with the flow
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Ok so then next question
Is pecan pronounced pee-can or peh-cahn
For me it’s grey but I hate the difference between UK and AE English. I spent one in the US and now I have to use the BE which is confusing. I mean all these word where you use ou instead of just o. But it’s English class so I will get through it.
Pee-can ftw
I’m confused as hell reading your post.
UK English, is the correct English, and the one that’s used by business internationally. However, a lot of lazy and USA English (also referred to as Americanisms… Where the American version or speech style is used) are breaking into UK English.
This is mainly due to 2 factors… Music and film/TV, all great sources of American styles of speech and spelling. It’s mainly millennials and younger generations that are doing this/influenced by it.
I’m not adverse to modernisation of the English language, but I do get annoyed at UK kids pretending to be American, and esp a certain sector, talking/walking like they’re American gangsters! I find it soo funny when I see a kid from a well to do area, dressing (jeans down past arse) like an American prisoner, and talking like they’re jz!
Or maybe, I’m just getting old?
First of all I’m a German student, but I spent one year in the US.
The problem I was referring to is that we learn both writings in German schools. Now, when we write a text it depends on the audience if we have to use BE or AE and this is the biggest problem for me as a student who prefers AE.
About the pretending to be thing. You don’t have to tell me it’s really annoying when people replace every 2nd word with an English one.