The word "bray" is correct and usable in written English
You can use "bray" as a verb to describe the loud, harsh cry of a donkey or mule. For example: "The donkey brayed as the farmer loaded it up with hay."
MORTARS thunder and donkeys bray as Major Anthony Lukwago Mbusi, a forward commander with African Union troops in Mogadishu, climbs through holes his men have made in the walls of abandoned houses along the front lines in the embattled Somali capital to avoid sniper fire.
Attempts at control are doomed to failure unless the phantom lawyer in every consulting room is exorcised for ever.HARRY BRAY, MDPortland, OregonFamily valuesSIR Your views on the value of marriage and the family, glibly restated by Bagehot (October 31st) in his praise for this government's attitude on such matters, are a constant source of bafflement.
The bray of the Asiatic wild ass lacks the alternating low tones heard in the "hee-haw" of the African wild ass.
Other species utter similar sounds, the whinny of the horse and the bray of the ass being well-known examples.
Similarly, scholars in the pragmatist tradition of John Dewey have suggested that global democracy is required to generate compliance with international rules and thus solve collective action problems such as climate change (Bray 2013).
So it does not follow that "every animal that can bray is a donkey, therefore every animal can bray," or "therefore, every animal is a donkey".
Bray added: "In the end it was in a very obvious place so most people would just walk past oblivious, which would always make me giggle.
Bray said the "treasure hunt" challenge had proved very popular with the public and the gallery's visitor numbers have quadrupled over the past three months.
The gallery's chief curator, Xavier Bray, described it as "an extraordinary experiment which has allowed people of all generations to reconnect with the collection and re-engage with it on a purely visual basis".
They ranged from the lack of warmth in the background canvas and the modern pigment of acrylic paints, to the expression on the face of the woman in the replica, which Bray described as "lacking psychology, just empty and flat".
