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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 ...

From Abidji to English to Zapoteco, the perception and naming of color is remarkably consistent in the world's languages. Across cultures, people tend to classify hundreds of different chromatic ...

No, the kid's probably not color blind. A trick for teaching children colors at a younger age--and why it is otherwise so hard for them Subject 046M, for male, was seated nervously across from me at ...

Claire Bowern receives funding from the National Science Foundation and the Australian Research Council. She is Vice-President of the Endangered Language Fund. It is striking that English color words ...

Source: Wikimedia Commons / Frederic Edwin Church / 1866. Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco How many colors are in the rainbow? Seven said Sir Isaac Newton. Of course, Newton knew that a spectrum is ...

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The way we commonly use color and number words in English makes it unnecessarily difficult for kids to learn the concepts Subject 046M, two years old, was seated nervously across from me at the table, ...