"Red" vs "orange" redux

[Jonathan Lighter]

Blinding orange.

JL

Wilson Gray <wilson.gray at RCN.COM> wrote:
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Sender: American Dialect Society
Poster: Wilson Gray
Subject: "Red" vs "orange" redux
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In a conversation with my wife, I used the phrase, "orange traffic
cone."

She: "What do you mean by "orange traffic cone"?

I: "You know. Those things they use when they're doing work on the
street?"

She, in the special feminine tone of voice that says: This conversation
is over: "Traffic cones are red."

-Wilson Gray


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