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Re: CHAT: Orange

From:Matthew Kehrt <matrix14@...>
Date:Wednesday, June 5, 2002, 16:46
The story that I've heard was that Issac Newton, upon discovering (or
using) the prism, saw light as being split into six colors (red, orange,
yellow, green, blue and purple/violet.  However, as seven was a much
luckier number than six, he threw in indigo to make the numbers right.

ObConlang:  Eviendadhail divides the spectrum up into five basic colors,
the names of only two of which I can remember off the top of my head:
Red (|ar|, /ar/), orange/yellow, yellow/green, blue/green (|cwean|,
|kwe.an|)(which is also used for the color we would call pure blue) and
blue/violet (which has a /v/ in it somewhere...)

-M

Nik Taylor wrote:
> > And as for the rainbow, how on Earth do they get 7 colors out of it? I > can only see, at most, 5 - red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and of > those, orange I rarely see.