**Aah, the English language!
'Grey' is the true English way of spelling it, although we understand that North Americans can spell it differently as with other words like color, neighbor, center etc. In todays age  true English has just been broken up because of accents, dialects etc. Texting has just broken this down even further, I too try to write properly even in a text message.

**"I can now only understand about half the characters on the British TV show Coronation Street when they speak"
**I come from Manchester where Coronation Street is filmed, even I can't understand half the things they say! Only joking, but just to go a few miles in either direction from here & the dialects change so much, it could be a different language, LOL!

**"The English language in America is hybridized from the cross-germination of all the languages that have been assimilated into America.  Right now the hybridation includes Spanglish, the odd amalgam of Latino Spanish and American English."
English itself comes from many different languages, Germanic having a big influence on old English.