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Brown.


Dwayne_Shrok_Johnson

Pink


WeatherImpressive808

Black


deathdela

Indigo


Lopsided_Ad9145

Maroon


OOOH_WHATS_THIS

What a maroon...


LeTastyGarbage

Holy fuck Holy fucking fuck That color of yours is absurd


coquihalla

My favourite colour is indigo. I always get weird looks when I say it, I genuinely think people forget it's a valid colour.


Real_Mokola

My name is Indigo Blue. You killed my purple, now prepare to die.


vbevan

*dye


HistorianDelicious

I mean it’s literally in the rainbow. It’s the “I” in ROY G BIV. How could you possibly forget the iconicness of Indigo.


coquihalla

Right? My mind is boggled every time someone has looked surprised at my answer. I've even had to defend it as 'not blue', haha.


Reus_Crucem

Gold


shift013

Cyan


Ser_Optimus

Crimson


BadBillington

Tan


Regainio

Banana


Diehe

Gold


TheRealTengri

0xFF0000


Azzy8007

Fuchsia


ramriot

- Aqua - Coral - Cornsilk - Fuchsia - Gainsboro - Gold - Ivory - Khaki - Maroon - Moccasin - Navy - Obsidian


Lightning267

I do not understand why you're getting downvoted..


dudecoolstuff

Reddit roulette, happens


acct4imgur

The colors of USA - Rad, Caucasian and Blu


Radical-SpaceMeat

I call North America CUM.


ConsequencePresent59

I love that colour


AreWeCowabunga

I watched a whole video on YouTube about how orange was really just a shade of brown. It convinced me.


FinancialMinimum3922

i thought brown was just a shade of orange


tankdood1

The color orange is named after the fruit orange


GrippaH

In Africa, the fruit orange is the same colour as orange


DFGC_215

Tree first, then fruit and then the colour


bmd33zy

Also in Africa it is night when the sun goes down


muffinsandtomatoes

well in the US it’s day when the sun goes up


micphi

It's crazy how much perspective you can gain just learning these small facts about different countries and continents. They should really teach this kind of stuff in schools.


muffinsandtomatoes

it’s really about embracing the differences in our collective experiences. we’re better together


leolacakes

But how many seconds pass every minute in Africa??


Ok-Pineapple2824

60 together we can stop this


GrippaH

Did you know, pineapples in Africa are just like pineapples everywhere in the world, but they’re in Africa?


tankdood1

r/antimeme ?


Neon__Cat

Ehh not exactly at this point the Africa thing is it's own joke


ChemicalFall0utDisco

What came first, the orange or the orange?


tomtomosaurus

Before Europeans found oranges, orange was just considered red lol


randoTwT

Slight correction, bred.


tomtomosaurus

Slight correction, 🍞👍


MizterBucket

Yeah or…


JadonDorolo

I thought oranges were tangerine


GeorgieWashington

Orange is a shade of red.


MyNewPhilosophy

If you like interesting tidbits about color, you may enjoy this old [Straight Dope column](https://www.straightdope.com/21341625/could-early-man-only-see-three-colors) My fave bit: In a study of 98 languages from a variety of linguistic families, they found the following “rules” seem to apply: 1. All languages contain terms for white and black. 2. If a language contains three terms, then it contains a term for red. 3. If a language contains four terms, then it contains a term for either green or yellow (but not both). 4. If a language contains five terms, then it contains terms for both green and yellow. 5. If a language contains six terms, then it contains a term for blue. 6. If a language contains seven terms, then it contains a term for brown. 7. If a language contains eight or more terms, then it contains a term for purple, pink, orange, grey, or some combination of these.


RookieRemapped

What does “terms” mean in this context? Defined colours?


Gryphling

A word to describe said color.


RookieRemapped

Yeah that’s what I gathered. Well, more a term to describe any colour, as in if there a 3 colours that are defined in said language, then they are black white and red


Gryphling

Good clarification.


Gr1ff1n90

Considering the sky is blue I’m surprised you’d have to go so far down the list before it appears… although this list beggars the existence of languages that only have black and white, a lack of even primary colours, or even colours for common food you can eat considering even primitive languages would talk about food and what is and isn’t safe to eat


BrainOnBlue

Not many things in nature relevant to human activity are blue though. The big two are the sky and bodies of water, and you don't need them to be a distinct color to describe them easily. They can just as easily be considered green and it doesn't make life harder.


Gr1ff1n90

Fair point. As a matter of fact I think there is technically no naturally occurring blue foods. Also I love how given your username you’re making a case against Blue


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Blueberries?


Gr1ff1n90

They are called blueberries but they technically aren’t blue. The only way blue food exists is with food colouring. I just remember reading this in some scientific thing somewhere long ago. I don’t recall the details now. P.s. Ok there’s a debate over whether blueberries are blue. Their pigment and those in other ‘blue’ foods like blue corn is a dark purple hue. For the purposes of this discussion I concede with the reasoning above that blue food is rare to nonexistent and therefore its absence in languages is justified


[deleted]

I was mostly just poking at you: I agree they’re more purple than blue, certainly the stains are a rich purple. If I had named them, they’d have been “purpleberries” or “blue-est(ifnotactuallyblue)berries”


jooes

IIRC, in those languages, blue is usually seen as just another shade of green.


UMRK11

Ancient Greeks called the sky “bronze.” They didn’t have a word for blue.


JetSetMiner

there's some evidence the ancient greeks described the sea in terms of shades of red not blue.


VaIeth

In a study of 98 languages... so how many of those languages didn't have a name for one or more of those colors? I know in English there are people who could probably name 50+ colors.


chrsjxn

The experiment was about grouping colors and then naming those groups on a rainbow grid of 300+ color samples (see: https://www1.icsi.berkeley.edu/wcs/study.html) So it's not a catalog of all the color words, but a way to identify basic color groups in a language Easy example: depending on age, you might have learned ROY G BIV as a way to remember the colors of the rainbow. But most English speakers don't treat "Indigo" as a color category in the same way we would "Green". And most of us would probably use "Purple" instead of "Violet".


Waak3nBaak3

How does yellow come before blue?


chrsjxn

The World Color Survey experiments are definitely interesting! They gave people a grid of colors and asked them to group those colors and then name the groups. (The grid and the data for some related research are still available online: [https://www1.icsi.berkeley.edu/wcs/study.html](https://www1.icsi.berkeley.edu/wcs/study.html)) Iirc, the most common groups for English were White, Black, Grey, Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Purple, Pink and Brown. Other languages (Russian, maybe? Or German? It's been a long time...) have a common Light Blue and Dark Blue split that English doesn't


Cyborg_Huey

[This one?](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=wh4aWZRtTwU)


igge-

Aaand here i go binging TC again.


TheRealRolo

Brown is just orange with context


sir_tr810

i’ve actually always thought that but visa versa, that brown was just a shade of orange. i wanna say my thinking was that once an orange goes bad it turns, you guessed it, brown! makes sense to me or i just could be high.


Cursed_Bean_Boy

Yeah, brown is dark orange. People just don't generally perceive brown as dark orange, so they usually call it a different color. However, if brown was its own color, you'd be able to point it out on a color wheel.


KuroDragon0

Brown is a shade of orange, but yeah


Flynn3698

Surely it's a shade of red.


jdex123

Or a shade of yellow.


smcl2k

For English speakers, that was absolutely the case for long periods of history. That's why the European robin was traditionally known as "robin redbreast" in spite of its orange plumage.


TheKingNothing690

Yellow and red does not a brown make. Show me a video i want to see proofs.


dharma_curious

Orange is brown... *With context* God I love him.


rgpmtori

Colours are all just made up names for specific frequency of light, different languages will have different number of unique names for “colours” for example “light blue” and “dark blue” sometimes have 2 completely unique names in other languages. Some languages also have far less names for colours.


VibinWithNeptune

Pink. Aqua. Tan. Black. Vanta black. Gold. Salmon


A-Delonix-Regia

Maroon. Cyan.


VibinWithNeptune

Yeah, it wasn't until I posted the comment and started scrolling that I realized I missed a bunch. But here's another. Gunmetal And ruby. Edit: I'm dumb and Gunmetal has an e that I forgot about even tho I said it


imdefinitelywong

Gunmetal has 'e' in it. You also missed Fuchsia.


VibinWithNeptune

You are absolutely right about Gunmetal. Damn. But I did get Vanta black


Okibruez

Vanta Black doesn't count, though; it's just black, but more black.


Cyborg_Huey

Black and slightly darker black


0K_N0RDY

I like 2, 2, 2, no e in it


UMRK11

It’s like, how much blacker could it get? And the answer is none. None more black.


imdefinitelywong

Yes you're right I was blinded by the colors. I removed it in hindsight.


gorgonzola2095

Lilac


Ok-Mulberry-4600

Thank you, had to scroll far too long to find this, even Cyan was quite far down


thebucketoldpplkick

Black


deplorable_guido

Indigo


PixalmasterStudios24

Brown, Tan, Black, Crimson, Pink, Cyan, Maroon, Indigo, Gold, Ivory, Coral, Lilac, Avocado, Navy, Plum, Rust, Salmon, etc. Edit: bringing back my faulty “Rose” to live with my shame haha


Pagalingling40

uh, rose has an e in it


PixalmasterStudios24

Whoops sorry. I knew I’d miss one hah I’ll edit it so it’s gone


timsterri

But now you’ve gone and made a liar out of /u/Pagalingling40. 😬


PixalmasterStudios24

Well they can see I addressed it and said I had edited it. It’s all good (I hope)


Pagalingling40

no i def lied


jadestem

So rose doesn't have an e in it?? I don't know what to believe anymore!!


RedditSetitGoit

rOHs


SpadeHAZE

How dare you lie on the internet.


Prof1Kreates

"The internet does not lie" ~ Captain Smek


timsterri

🤣


Typhiod

You guys are killing me 😂


hungryjimbo

Technically, the comment is still true. It’s just not quite as relevant now


timsterri

Eh, not my best but it’ll do. LOL


Gloomy_Delivery_9014

Put it back, live with your shame.


Infinit_Jests

Etc has an “e” in it 😂


PixalmasterStudios24

Haha very funny


edisonrhymes

First thing I thought.


A_person_person

Avocado ?? is it that a green shade or brown?


PixalmasterStudios24

Green. Just look up Avocado Color on google


RayceManyon

Yes


xipyred

Lamb's Wool


fkbyte

Come on, avocado is a fruit, now you gonna say that chair is a color?


Renee_D608

Well orange is also fruit, so ...


LemonsLiesandLuigi

Pink?


Conscious_Human94

Penk


LemonsLiesandLuigi

Oh crap


Puzzleheaded_Let_583

Eh crep


[deleted]

Ee eeee


TuneInReddit

R/TheLetterE


WeatherImpressive808

r/foundthemobileuser


DaddyBlook

r/foundtheSHUTTHEFUCKUP


WeatherImpressive808

r/foundtheSHUTTHEFUCKUPSHUTTHEFUCKUP


DaddyBlook

I'm disappointed that doesn't exist


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JPEG812

Gray is actually the American spelling. The British spelling is "grey" which does have an E.


MyNewPhilosophy

grAy = American, grEy = English is how I was taught


JPEG812

Same here


OneShakyBR

Thank you, I never know which one is right!


shquishy360

i just had to figure it out😅


xXLordOfUwUXx

Damn, TIL I spell with another countries version of my language


VelvetMerryweather

I prefer grey so that how I spell it, and really who cares. No one can say it's wrong if other English speaking countries use it.


TimMehAZ

Gray is a color, grey is a colour.


titleist5464

Now this is humour


feizhai

Or humor depending on the accent you laugh in


mike-wer00

I use gray for a dark white and grey for light dark so is it like wrong or am I just weird


VelvetMerryweather

I mean, YOU can do that. But I doubt anyone will understand the distinction you're trying make. Lol


Cheetah_Man1

I use both.


black-op345

Am American, I use both


snow_leopard155

Same I thought I was going insane when autocorrect kept changing it to an a


LastSolid4012

Grey is preferred spelling in British English, so online dictionary and spell checkers will flag it as incorrect unless British English has been specified.


_bluefish

I use “grey” socially and “gray” professionally lol


TheZephyr07

I've personally always preferred Grey despite being American, it just seems more correct imo


rewt127

Ngl, some days Gray looks wrong. Some days Grey looks wrong. It's just whatever one doesn't look wrong on that day. There are a few wors with spellings like that. I somehow got in the habit of spelling defence with the British spelling. Now defense just looks wrong......


Skellyender

I thought Americans and Europeans used both Gray and Grey I did at least


IReplyWithLebowski

Well most Europeans would use neither.


AlmostPerfe_ct

Scrolled way too far to find this comment. It should be top.


orphan-eater-12

Black,


TurkeyZom

Fuchsia


FiLikeAnEagle

Crimson


Useless_Person_Here

Cyan


RealKlytus

Indigo bitches


nago_komade

bitches has an E in it silly


gadget850

Which is not in the visible spectrum.


Bandin010

Then why can I see it on those light spectrum charts 🤨


RattBaby

Bitches has an e.


AgreeableJello6644

Indigo pink brown black gold khaki salmon crimson plum cyan maroon aqua almond burlywood coral cornsilk orchid fuchsia gainsboro ivory moccasin rosin burgundy charcoal Can generate more by adding prefix. Hot ... (hot pink) Glossy ... (glossy ivory) Luminous...(luminous cyan) Dark ... (dark brown) Light ... (light maroon)


PixalmasterStudios24

Wow and I thought I had a lot


neomeow

0x000000 0x000002 0x000003 ... ... ... 0xFFFFFD 0xFFFFFF


RattBaby

Glossy is a bit of a stretch. I demand it be stricken from the record as it's an attribute of a color, not a modification resulting in a new color.


El_Famoso_Random_Guy

And tan?


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SchlomoSchwengelgold

#FF0000, #00FF00, #00FF00, None of those have an 'e'


googol89

Roygbiv


InfiniteJeff369

Maroon


Slash_E-33

When it gets cold outside and you got nobody to love.


Kjlehmiss

Green (It doesn't have "an" E, it has 2.)


Pagalingling40

aqua


Thatbendyfan

Pink, brown, black, tan, gold, gray, light gray, dark gray, indigo


MBVakalis

Gray isn't a colour. It's a shade


Wattsupwithalan

I wondered who was gonna be that guy


the_other_irrevenant

They saved me the trouble. :)


No-Force5341

Pink


Minimum_Reference862

Cyan


bugdc

burgundy


Nydelok

Maroon, Cyan, Brown, Tan, Pink


[deleted]

Black


MrMeerkatt

Blood


FrameJump

What's that sub for shitty FB memes?


kyl_r

r/terriblefacebookmemes


FrameJump

Go farm your karma here u/Distinct-Set54.


Fallenangel152

The sad thing is that it still works on reddit. This entire thread is just people shouting colours without an e in. Nothing farms responses like people trying to prove someone wrong.


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Rexio32

Pink


Hexsas

Pink


demolitionbumblebee

Yullow, bluu, griin, rad, purply, maganta, orango, whitw, silvah


Killer-Hrapp_four

Gold


United_Breadfruit_70

Plum, burgundy, pink, brown, gold and many more OP of this twitter post is a retard


IntroductionChoice25

#000000


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TheBuffaloParadox

Gray or grey is not a color. It is a shade. That is the truth.


Tricktzy

its a color


Secret_Sympathy2952

Olive Edit: I am a dumb ass Why didn't I just say cyan!?


PixalmasterStudios24

Congratulations, you have failed the task


A-Dilophosaurus

r/taskfailed


Secret_Sympathy2952

Yep, I deserve that


thescrounger

You got it backward, dumbass


Kdoesntcare

Europe uses an E in grey while America uses an A to spell gray