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Post by Little Jack Horner on Feb 25, 2018 23:17:41 GMT
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Post by Dave Miller on Feb 26, 2018 0:20:45 GMT
To my previous "paltry list" of pure colour names, I must add one: brown.
If we ignore black and white for a moment (which are anyway perhaps just ultimate shades of grey?), that gives: red, yellow, green, blue, purple, brown and grey.
Question: in the list, what is different about yellow?
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Post by Verbivore on Feb 26, 2018 7:19:42 GMT
I was watching an old episode of QI when this gave me a laugh:
Matt Lucas used less rather than fewer, and Stephen Fry ‘corrected’ him. Lucas's riposte was rather brilliant, I thought:
ML: “Knock, knock.”
SF: “Who’s there?”
ML: “Two.”
SF: “Two who?”
ML: “No, Stephen. It’s to whom.”
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Post by Little Jack Horner on Feb 26, 2018 12:29:28 GMT
Like it.
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Post by Twoddle on Feb 28, 2018 10:36:32 GMT
I think I'm becoming dyslexic. On the BBC News Web-site this morning there's a story about how some people "echolocate", like bats. However, I read it as "echocolate" and then spent a couple of minutes in a confused state, wondering not only what "e chocolate" was, but also how bats had access to it. If only "they" could have thought to use a hyphen!
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Post by Verbivore on Feb 28, 2018 11:24:39 GMT
Twod: Perhaps "e chocolate" is a new, supposedly safe, way to consume the product of the cacao bean – similar to e-cigarettes (which aren't safe, because they can catch fire in one's pocket – apparently from misfunctioning of the lithium-ion batteries!).
I'll stick with real 85% cacao from Lindt, thanks.
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Post by Dave Miller on Feb 28, 2018 14:19:13 GMT
I read "echolocate", in the BBC News item, exactly as Twod did: e-chocolate!
It's the way the eye is drawn to the more familiar word. I have a similar problem when I see, on vans parked outside shops which are being worked on with new counters, shelves etc, all being installed: A Bloggs (or whatever), "Shoplifters".
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Post by Verbivore on Mar 5, 2018 23:14:47 GMT
Another colour that is a personal name is Magenta.
At my newspaper we have a regular letter-writer whose name – no kidding! – is Magenta Appel-Pye. (The Appel has the emphasis on the second syllable.)
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