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entombed in the shrine of zeroes and ones ([personal profile] rone) wrote2009-12-28 09:46 am
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[identity profile] ewx.livejournal.com 2009-12-28 07:16 pm (UTC)(link)
It’s part of a discussion appended to the etymology section in the word’s entry in the OED. It concludes: “As the word is both etymologically and phonetically one, it is undesirable to treat its graphic forms as differing in signification.”

I have to agree

[identity profile] notr.livejournal.com 2009-12-29 02:32 am (UTC)(link)
with both parts: I tend to write grey for light and cool and gray for dark and warm, but they're two spellings of the same word denoting exactly the same range of colors.