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Search Canada.ca To begin your search, go to the alphabetical index below and click on the first letter of the word you are searching for. ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ grey, gray

Canadians prefer the spelling grey, although gray is also correct. Grey is the preferred spelling in Britain, while gray is favoured in the United States.

• A tolerant and forgiving person, my aunt never saw the world in black and white, but always in shades of grey.

Always check the spelling of proper names.

• The Grey Cup was named for an early governor general.
• The "Indigenous" conservationist Grey Owl was in fact an Englishman named Archie Belaney.
• On the doctor’s desk were a dog-eared copy of Gray’s Anatomy and a poetry book open to Gray’s Elegy in a Country Churchyard.

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