BlueSky? Nah, its November in Toronto, its mostly GraySky these days.

That’s only half joking lol

gray? grey?

Merriam-Webster says:

grey
adjective

less common spelling of gray

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/grey

"Gray and grey are both common spellings for the various neutral shades of color between black and white. Gray is more frequent in American English, and grey more common in Canada, the UK, and elsewhere. This pattern extends to specialized terms such as animal species (gray/grey whale) and scientific designations (gray/grey matter). Greyhound, however, is an exception; its grey shares a lineage with an Old Norse word for a female dog."

https://www.merriam-webster.com/grammar/gray-vs-grey-usage-difference

Fascinating. Languages are so fun.

I'm partial to the UK spelling of things - colour over color - mostly because that is how I learned English in my early childhood schooling.

I actually did not know about the gray/grey difference until just now.

it is not a strong preference though, just habit.

I still write recognize over recognise and other Americanisms. Just proximity to America and Americans made that happen over time.

I still say "lift" instead of "elevator" though.

There are a few other things like that that I can't remember, remnants from having grown up where British English was the dominant form of English.

Hm actually I think I code switch and say "elevator" if I'm not talking to family or other people who say "lift" instead of "elevator".

I've talked about this before but one of the Indian English word patterns that I've seen American IT people make fun of is "do the needful" which is just a regionalism. It would be like if I made fun of Americans for using "y'all". Same shit.

( and I think it is a old Britishism anyways because yay colonization )

"do the needful" is short form for "do the necessary action"

efficient really as far as language regionalisms go

the point is don't make fun of people using the language you also use in a slightly different way