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Red, yellow, pink and green: How the world's languages name the rainbow

  • Written by Claire Bowern, Associate Professor of Linguistics, Yale University
imageHow many colors in your language's rainbow?Eye image via www.shutterstock.com.

It is striking that English color words come from many sources. Some of the more exotic ones, like “vermilion” and “chartreuse,” were borrowed from French, and are named after the color of a particular item (a type of mercury and a liquor,...

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