Hey, how do u spell grey whale.?

Question

okay ive seen gray whale and grey whale.. what is the correct spelling grey or gray it sounds confusioning i know please help

Answer 1

Grey whale is the name of a rather large cetacean.

Lots and lots of animals, and numerous plants are named with a color as a word describing a noun. Most of these are only descriptive, but are not conclusive names.

White, blue, red, green, purple, violet, yellow, orange, black, tan, grey, brown, silver, gold, pink, maroon, magenta, etc. These are all colors (of course). Think in terms of them as being just colors, even describers.

There is no need to get hung up on the exact spelling of such words, when some other country may use a different spelling.

Grey is acceptable. Gray is also acceptable.

Answer 2

i would say that officail common name is gray whale.....grey may be acceptable for linguistuc purpose but in naming animal, gray deosnt neccesarrily mean grey..

example.....there are 2 species of finch..one is called common XXX finch and the other is called Lesser xx finch...it doesnt mean the first one is common while the second is not!

Answer 3

According to everyone's favorite non-reference site,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gray_whale
it's either way. If you live in the US, it's gray, if you live in Europe, it's grey. Believe it or not, the American spelling is the original.
http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?search=gray

Answer 4

i think its "gray whale" it was not taught by my elementary school teacher as "grey" in my art class.

Answer 5

After living in china and learning english from a teacher who learned english in britain, I found out that both is correct. Apparently, one is American Engish, and one is Britain English.

Answer 6

there are both correct

like color and colour