The Birk avered:
> apparently we know the words the Ancient Greeks used for colours but not
> with certainty to what colours they referred.
I'm creditably informed that it was "wine-dark", but whether red, white,
or rose ...
I hesitate to be non-pc, but don't the Welsh discriminate between
varieties of grey and green? Whether this is genetic or linguistic, who
knows ...
>I like to ask myself what
> colour is the sea?
"snot-green", I have it on creditable information.
> For children it always blue but ...
SNIP
> to employ a more discriminating vocabulary of colours that males.
That's because they choose the wallpaper.
40 terms for Eskimo Nell's snow.
Da Rodent
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