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HelpRe: Grey...on a boy
in reply to a message by Shadowfax
I prefer Gray. Grey is okay but seems less masculine to me. Grayson / Greyson sounds sort of false to me ... because it is a trendy style, rhymes with the popular Mason and sounds like the popular Grace and has the trendy surnamey -son thing.
I think my choice of which spelling to use is either random, or unconsciously influenced - I know I use both spellings. I don't know for sure that I actually do this, but I prefer "grey" when I am speaking metaphorically ... a grey mood, grey areas where you don't know something for sure, shades of grey in moral issues; and I prefer "gray" when I am talking about a literal color: gray skies, gray scarf, gray hair.
I pretty much say GRAY-sən. Like "Gray's son," said fast without the Z sound in it. It's not a short I sound. I think if I were living in Texas and conversing with people who speak with a Texas accent, it would probably come out close to a short I sound like in chasing. But in my usual accent it's more like a neutral vowel.
I think my choice of which spelling to use is either random, or unconsciously influenced - I know I use both spellings. I don't know for sure that I actually do this, but I prefer "grey" when I am speaking metaphorically ... a grey mood, grey areas where you don't know something for sure, shades of grey in moral issues; and I prefer "gray" when I am talking about a literal color: gray skies, gray scarf, gray hair.
I pretty much say GRAY-sən. Like "Gray's son," said fast without the Z sound in it. It's not a short I sound. I think if I were living in Texas and conversing with people who speak with a Texas accent, it would probably come out close to a short I sound like in chasing. But in my usual accent it's more like a neutral vowel.
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