peoriapeoriawhereart: patina sundial (gnomen)
peoriapeoriawhereart ([personal profile] peoriapeoriawhereart) wrote on July 15th, 2020 at 01:45 am
I am drawn to Homer's wine dark sea which I seem to recall was associated with some of these sorts of questions, even though as of itself in belongs at the last prompt. ;)

I've had people misunderstand what it means to gain a color word, whether that's picking up one to split the load with the pre-existing hardest-working or gaining orange.

English isn't particularly creative with its color word roster, excepting the raft of specialist terms it acquired along with the empires they resided in.

"Quick, hide the vocabulary, the English are coming!
 
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