ROYGBIV

Laurence Horn laurence.horn at YALE.EDU
Wed Aug 30 23:08:30 UTC 2006


At 3:58 PM -0700 8/30/06, Brenda Lester wrote:
>Uh, I head that "they" took out indigo.
>   (unchecked rumour)

Yeah, it's been declared a dwarf color.

LH

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>Beverly Flanigan <flanigan at OHIO.EDU> wrote:
>   At 04:18 PM 8/30/2006, you wrote:
>>At 2:50 PM -0400 8/30/06, Alice Faber wrote:
>>>Baker, John wrote:
>>>>  I have no trouble with Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Asteroid
>>>>Belt, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and (formerly) Pluto, but I can
>>>>never remember the mnemonics. Is this unusual?
>>>My entire mnemonic mnemory space is filled with ROYGBIV.
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>>Ah, but you have to leave roomn (maybe by loosening that asteroid
>>belt) for Every Good Boy Deserves Fun (or Favour).
>>
>>LH
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>Ah, that's a new one to me; I learned Every Good Boy Does Fine. But your
>version is more appealing, I suppose. Where'd you get that British
>spelling though?
>
>Beverly
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