Fifty Shades Of Grice

Speranza

Grice was once asked if his surname was Scots (In Scots, 'grice' means 'pig'). He was offended (about the denotatum of the alleged derivation of his surname). "Hardly: it's Anglo-Norman: it means 'grey'" -- as implicating, 'as in fifty shades of Grice,' you know.