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Re: Quest for colours: what's basic then?

From:David Zitzelsberger <davidz@...>
Date:Thursday, April 22, 2004, 14:24
The reason for indigo, I believe, is so that the rainbow can be abbreviated,
in English.

ROYGBIV

Which is supposed to be within morphological constraints. I always found it
humorous because people pronounce more like

ROYGiBIV

Why they couldn't say

ROYGiBiV

always got me. I've never personally heard anyone refer to indigo in the
rainbow unless they used

R O Y GiB I V
e r e r l n i
d a l e u d o
  n l e e i l
  g o n   g e
  e w     o t
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From: taliesin the storyteller [mailto:taliesin-conlang@NVG.ORG]
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Subject: Re: Quest for colours: what's basic then?

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* Adam Walker said on 2004-04-22 14:05:15 +0200
> clearly visible aqua stripe in a rainbow, yet eveyone insisted there > were two purple stripes which they named violet and indigo.
[Snip] yellow... Indigo being its own color is humbug, it's a nice dark blue [Snip]

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