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Narrator: Today's word is "Grey" — noun, pronounced /ɡreɪ/, with the stress on "grey".
Narrator: Grey is the colour between black and white, like ash or storm clouds.
Narrator: In plain English, the colour of a rainy sky.
Narrator: It comes from Old English grǣg.
Narrator: A common collocation is "grey area", which describes something unclear.
Narrator: It differs from "silver", because silver is shiny and metallic, while grey is flat.
Narrator: In a second sense, "grey matter" means brain power.
Narrator: Design, fashion, meteorology and law rely on the word.
Narrator: So remember: grey sits between black and white.
Speaker A: Is it grey or gray?
Speaker B: GREY is British, gray is American! From Old English grǣg.
Speaker A: Same colour?
Speaker B: Identical colour.
Speaker A: Example sentences?
Speaker B: "The sky turned grey", weather. "That's a legal grey area", law. "Use your grey matter", humour.
Speaker A: Common mistakes?
Speaker B: Write grey in British English, but CSS colour names use gray.
Speaker A: Close relatives?
Speaker B: Ash is its cousin, slate its twin, and charcoal an alternative — yet grey keeps its understated charm!
Speaker B: Let's use "grey" in AI prompts — useful for disabled states and neutral palettes.
Speaker A: How for states?
Speaker B: Disabled buttons.
Prompt: Style disabled buttons in mid grey with reduced opacity.
Speaker A: And palettes?
Speaker B: Neutrals.
Prompt: Generate a scale of ten neutral greys for this design system.
Speaker A: Could it help writing?
Speaker B: Yes, for spelling.
Prompt: Convert gray to grey throughout this British help centre, except in code.
Speaker A: One more?
Speaker B: Images.
Prompt: Convert these product photos to greyscale for the print catalogue.
Grey — meaning in Arabic & definition More G courses GL Dictionary