Grey Not Gray

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As you know the Word ‘Grey’ could also be written as ‘Gray’. I decided to write it with an “e” instead of an “a” because I’ve always liked this spelling better. In my mind I link the color grey with the letter “e” and the color yellow with the letter “a”.

Regardless of what I like or not like, there are a few facts about these two spellings that can’t be ignored. In the USA and Canada, of every 100 times this word is written, 80 times is ‘gray’, and 20 times is ‘grey’.

In Great Britain is exactly the opposite. 

Perhaps this is an irrelevant fact , but it’s an interesting one.

Look at the interesting curves pictured below (They are typical of an obsessive-compulsive writer like Pablo Ramos, the person who wrote this easy in Spanish):       

(Source:  grammarist.com  )

Use of gray and grey (as a percentage of all words) in American books,

magazines, and journals published from 1800 to 2000

Use of the same words in British publications in the same timeframe.