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The first recorded use of grey as a color name in the English language was in 700 CE. [5] Grey is the dominant spelling in European and Commonwealth English, while gray is more common in American English; however, both spellings are valid in both varieties of English. [6]
Cadet gray is a slightly bluish shade of gray. The first recorded use of cadet grey as a color name in English was in 1912. [25] Before 1912, the word cadet gray was used as a name for a type of military issue uniforms. Most famously, it was the color of the uniforms of the Confederate Army.
agreed upon by speakers of that language. English has 11 basic color terms: black, white, red, green, yellow, blue, brown, orange, pink, purple, and gray; other languages have between 2 and 12. All other colors are considered by most speakers of that language to be variants of these basic color terms.
Basic Color Terms: Their Universality and Evolution (1969; ISBN 1-57586-162-3) is a book by Brent Berlin and Paul Kay.Berlin and Kay's work proposed that the basic color terms in a culture, such as black, brown, or red, are predictable by the number of color terms the culture has.
Magenta is variously defined as a purplish-red, reddish-purple, or a mauvish–crimson color. On color wheels of the RGB and CMY color models, it is located midway between red and blue, opposite green.
If a language contains five terms, then it contains terms for both green and yellow. If a language contains six terms, then it contains a term for blue. If a language contains seven terms, then it contains a term for brown. If a language contains eight or more terms, then it contains terms for purple, pink, orange or gray.
Oppose as others have stated, grey is accepted in all versions of English whereas gray is a US-only variant. --Vometia 11:40, 31 December 2022 (UTC) That's just flatly untrue. "Grey" accounts for just 67% of UK usage while "gray" accounts for 75% of US usage. That is, "gray" is more popular in the UK than "grey" is in the USA. Red Slash 23:22 ...
Gray (horse), sometimes mistaken for a white horse Gray langur, Hanuman langur; Gray whale; Gray wolf, native to the wilderness and remote areas of Eurasia and North America ...