New article on greywater inspection

[inxilpro (Chris Morrell)]

Use this thread to discuss the entry New article on greywater inspection at the InterNACHI Blog

[mlarson (Michael Larson, WI Lic. # 1672-106)]

grAy is how it’s spelled in America

grEy is how it’s spelled in England

[rlondon (Rob London)]

Greywater is how it’s spelled in America, England the rest of the world, most of the time

Graywater is how it’s spelled occasionally

Try searching on Google. Even Wikipedia spells it “greywater”

[mlarson (Michael Larson, WI Lic. # 1672-106)]

@rlondon

Greywater is how it’s spelled in America, England the rest of the world, most of the time

Graywater is how it’s spelled occasionally

Try searching on Google. Even Wikipedia spells it “greywater”

Come on Rob anyone can change the wiki and yes I looked before I posted.:roll:

I am a long time RVer It’s always been Gray Water

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=rv+gray+water+holding+tanks&aq=1c&aqi=g-c5&aql=&oq=rv+graywater&gs_rfai=

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According to an interesting and authoritative note in the Oxford English Dictionary, the spelling “gray” was championed by Samuel Johnson, English writer and lexicographer and other English lexicographers; but in the twentieth century “grey” became the established spelling in Britain anyway.

Meanwhile, in the United States, “gray” became standard somewhat earlier. Examining two nineteenth-century U.S. dictionaries–Webster’s Academic Dictionary (1867) and Webster’s Condensed Dictionary (~1897)–and both include entries for “grey” that refer readers to “gray” for the term’s definitions. So what is the difference between grey and gray? On the one hand, this indicates an early preference in the United States (or at least at Merriam-Webster) for “gray”; but on the other, it suggests an incomplete victory, since British spellings such as “labour” and “labelled” don’t appear in those dictionaries at all.

[mcyr (Marcel Cyr, CMI)]

I’ll have to agree with Mike, as much as it hurts. :mrgreen:

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USGBC LEED Spells it Graywater for this purpose.

[mlarson (Michael Larson, WI Lic. # 1672-106)]

@mcyr

I’ll have to agree with Mike, as much as it hurts. :mrgreen:

I hope it doesn’t hurt too much.

If it does, put some ice on it.:shock::mrgreen:

[mcyr (Marcel Cyr, CMI)]

Yeah, it helped. :mrgreen:
Good pick up on that Mike.

[mlarson (Michael Larson, WI Lic. # 1672-106)]

@mcyr

Yeah, it helped. :mrgreen:
Good pick up on that Mike.

I’m not the greatest speller but I can Google

[rlondon (Rob London)]

The greatest measure of anything is Google, and there are four times as many hits for greywater as there are for graywater. Nevertheless, I’ll let you have this one and propose an alternate spelling in the article

[mlarson (Michael Larson, WI Lic. # 1672-106)]

I don’t care what you do.

If you don’t want to spell it in the accepted manner that’s your problem.

I can find thousands of hits from Google for all sorts of madness.

20,000 for this search:http://www.google.com/search?aq=f&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=the+truth+of+9/11

So if that’s your gold standard so be it.