On color-terms
Wilson Gray
hwgray at GMAIL.COM
Sun Jun 17 21:07:03 UTC 2012
Kinda dumbed down and not academic, but still of interest, perhaps.
http://www.empiricalzeal.com/2012/06/05/the-crayola-fication-of-the-world-how-we-gave-colors-names-and-it-messed-with-our-brains-part-i/
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