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<div>Italian has some colour adjectives which are in origin nouns and
hence do not agree, e.g.<i> rosa </i> 'pink',<i> viola</i>
'purple',<i> crema</i> 'cream',<i> bordeaux</i>, this last usually
translated in English as 'burgundy' even though oenophiles will know
they refer to entirely different beverages!</div>
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<div><font color="#000000">Professor Nigel Vincent</font></div>
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