Login
Toggle sidebar

Lint: grey-vs-gray

Acronyms
warning

"Outside the US, grey is the preferred spelling and gray is rarely seen, whereas the situation in the US is the exact converse."

Line 1:16 · 'US' has no definition. Spell it out if it's unfamiliar to the audience.

"Outside the US, grey is the preferred spelling and gray is rarely seen, whereas the situation in the US is the exact converse."

Line 1:139 · 'US' has no definition. Spell it out if it's unfamiliar to the audience.

"However the spelling of the SI unit of absorbed dose is gray (Gy), named after the British physicist Louis Gray. Unfortunately, our translation module does not understand context and therefore would autotranslate all instances of gray to grey, even articles with specific absorbed doses mentioned, resulting in nonsensical statements, e.g. 3 milligrey, etc."

Line 2:32 · 'SI' has no definition. Spell it out if it's unfamiliar to the audience.
Grey Spelling
warning

"Outside the US, grey is the preferred spelling and gray is rarely seen, whereas the situation in the US is the exact converse."

Line 1:80 · Radiopaedia uses the 'grey' spelling: 'grey' rather than 'gray'.

"However the spelling of the SI unit of absorbed dose is gray (Gy), named after the British physicist Louis Gray. Unfortunately, our translation module does not understand context and therefore would autotranslate all instances of gray to grey, even articles with specific absorbed doses mentioned, resulting in nonsensical statements, e.g. 3 milligrey, etc."

Line 2:258 · Radiopaedia uses the 'grey' spelling: 'grey' rather than 'gray'.
Strong
warning

"However the spelling of the SI unit of absorbed dose is gray (Gy), named after the British physicist Louis Gray. Unfortunately, our translation module does not understand context and therefore would autotranslate all instances of gray to grey, even articles with specific absorbed doses mentioned, resulting in nonsensical statements, e.g. 3 milligrey, etc."

Line 2:112 · Generally, don't use bold in text: '<strong>Louis Gray</strong>'
Semicolons
suggestion

"Originally, Radiopaedia preferentially used British English spellings; therefore, we have chosen to use the spelling 'grey' across the site and not vary it with user preference."

Line 3:73 · Use semicolons judiciously.
Links
0
0
0