10 February, 2008

US vs UK

... or rather grey vs gray. For many terms, the volume of an Americanized spelling will simply swamp the results for the corresponding UK term (try 'honor' vs 'honour'), but grey and gray seem comparable. But one version has an annual peak in November. Why?

1 comment:

Fred said...

Addendum: Searching for the fixed phrase "gr*y november" when *=e, we get 13k hits, and when *=a we get 18k. The peaks are in "grey".