"Grey" is the British/Canadian spelling, the author appears to be American. The only times "grey" showed up in the article were in direct quotes, presumably from British English writers.
I'm not familiar with specific rules for quoting speech. I think different publishing houses and editors have their own conventions on this (which includes things like altering the spelling of the words to infer a specific accent).
The sentence structure for this is also gray. Sentences are all of similar length with little variation. After a few paragraphs you start to feel the monotony. There is no shorter or longer sentence to break the tension. I don't know if this was intentional or not. But I think it fits the tone of the article well. I'm writing in that way right now and it's rather uncomfortable.
Me too, I never understood why people are bothered about varying sentence length.
Same with synonyms. I prefer when authors find the perfect word and then stick with it. The resulting word repetitions are something I only notice when someone points them out to me, even if they drive other people out of their minds.
Yep, other languages (Chinese for example) don't see it as odd if you have to use the same word repeatedly --people don't feel pressure to use synonyms to say the same thing or elaborate on a given topic. Wish more writers of English felt the same way.
lovat | ˈləvət |
noun
a muted green color used especially in tweed and woolen garments.
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Perse (mythology)
In Greek mythology, Perse (Greek: Πέρση; also spelled Persa or Perseis) is an Oceanid nymph, one of the three thousand daughters of the Titans Oceanus and Tethys, and the wife of the sun god, Helios. Their children are Aeetes, Perses, Pasiphae, and Circe.
One of her many Oceanid sisters is Amphitrite (the wife of Poseidon).
Perse is also closely identified with Hecate.
Gray makes me think of an old friend of mine, who wasn't human, but a cat, and though she was almost completely gray from nose to tail (except for a few distinctive white spots on her chest, belly, and rear paws), she was anything but dull. She was a beauty, as any who saw her would attest. Her fur shimmered in the sunlight, often revealing tabby patterns you couldn't normally see. And her large, alert yellow eyes would form a striking contrast with the gray of her face and body. She thought herself a queen, and expected to be treated as such, rewarding only her most loyal subjects with purring and limited petting time. In so doing she made gray a regal color indeed.
This make me think of watching "She's Gotta Have It" by Spike Lee. When watching the black and white movie I was blown away by the image depth. It a bright sunlit scene you could see shadows and details in the shade under a tree.
For some reason black and white film always had more dynamic range than color. I don't know why.
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[ 4.7 ms ] story [ 67.0 ms ] threadThe spellings are both widely used apparently.
http://grammarist.com/spelling/gray-grey/
It's also common to respect the original spelling when quoting (e.g. consciously, not just as an artifact of copy/pasting)
Do you know what the rules are for quoting speech? If a Brit says "gray sky", would you use the British spelling when quoting?
https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2018/05/09/lilac-the-col...
Not sure when TPR was appointed to be in charge of the color beat.
Edit: Made me think of this: https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/373814-this-sentence-has-fi...
Same with synonyms. I prefer when authors find the perfect word and then stick with it. The resulting word repetitions are something I only notice when someone points them out to me, even if they drive other people out of their minds.
Liard \Li"ard\ (l[imac]"[~e]rd), a. [OF. liart, LL. liardus gray, dapple.] Gray. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
Note: Used by Chaucer as an epithet of a gray or dapple gray horse. Also used as a name for such a horse.
1: http://jsomers.net/blog/dictionary
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lovat | ˈləvət | noun a muted green color used especially in tweed and woolen garments.
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Perse (mythology) In Greek mythology, Perse (Greek: Πέρση; also spelled Persa or Perseis) is an Oceanid nymph, one of the three thousand daughters of the Titans Oceanus and Tethys, and the wife of the sun god, Helios. Their children are Aeetes, Perses, Pasiphae, and Circe. One of her many Oceanid sisters is Amphitrite (the wife of Poseidon). Perse is also closely identified with Hecate.
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To me it reads as ”Life, love, loss.”
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/lovat ("dusty blue-green")
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/perse#English ("dark greyish-blue")
[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle_gray
I still miss her every day.
For some reason black and white film always had more dynamic range than color. I don't know why.