Re: agony column...

At 21:39:33 on Tue, 14 Aug 2007, David M <david@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in <slrnfc44o4.75d.david@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:

Molly Mockford wrote in uk.culture.language.english

In English English, it is "grey". In Scots, it is "gray".

Interesting, I never knew that, and have therefore always spelled said
colour as "grey"[1]! Do you have a citation for that?

Scots-English / English-Scots Dictionary, Lomond Books (1998 / 2001), ISBN 0-947782-26-5. The word is (unlike some) included in both sections, from one spelling to the other and back again.
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