Holy shit! English has an actual name to that elusive color that in Brazilian Portuguese we infomally call "cor-de-burro-quando-foge" (literally "the color of a donkey as he runs away" -- yes, I'm not making this up).
TAUPE (pron. "tope", rhymes with "hope")
From Wikipedia: "Taupe is a vague color term which may refer to almost any grayish brown or brownish gray, but true taupe is difficult to pinpoint as brown or gray."
AND this name is also derived from an animal! (it's French for "mole").
@rjek oh English :)
I got it from here (this guy is Canadian) https://youtube.com/shorts/Pad4li0elQQ?si=tPd564KYYuy4F42r
Wikipedia says "Taupe ( /ΛtoΚp/ TOHP)"
since my English pronunciation skews American-ish, I think I'll stick with that myself. But noted! At least now I'll know to come up with mental images of British donkeys on the run when I hear someone say tawp!
@Giselle @rjek you're actually the third Brit who mentioned "tawp", so I think there might be some regional variation at play!
But as far as the French pronunciation goes, I believe it is actually closer to "tope"?
https://translate.google.com/?sl=fr&tl=en&text=taupe&op=translate
(Of course, that depends on how you pronounce "toe" vs. "taw"; come to think of it, British English says "oe" in a much more 'rounded' way than American or Canadian, so maybe the thing is that we differ on how to say "hope" π β ...oh English!)
@hisham_hm @rjek Phonetic spelling is challenging, isn't it. I was thinking of tope as rhyming with hope, the French clip is much closer to the tawp I was thinking of (the Brit way of saying it is longer, in French it's much shorter), so maybe it should be phonetically written as tawhp? The aw like in awesome.
It's all very intriguing! There definitely are regional variations.
Anyway, I was intrigued to see a discussion about this colour, it doesnt come up often. The donkey phrase is brilliant!
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