Deafdoggie
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As an aside, is it 'amber' or 'yellow'? Here railway usage meets road usage. The wig-wag reds are preceded by – what? The colour is plainly yellow in both regimes, yet the Highway Code persists in this use of the word 'amber'. Amber is a substance, it is fossilised tree resin. Yellow is the colour. We could extend this use of the names of 'stuff' to describe railway signals “ - as I came round the curve I saw that the signal was blood, but it immediately cleared to grass with out the intervening amber”. How crazy is that?
The Met office have just upgraded the weather warning from Yellow to Amber. Amber is seen as more dangerous than yellow. The idea is make drivers think of Amber lights as dangerous. Lots of words have more than one meaning, It's not new.