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niknak79:
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Just a little poetry for you guys…
This is perfect, thank you.
that’s a crocus
Violets are violet. But that’s still a crocus.
Well I wasn’t saying violets are not of the color violet, but since you bring it up…
Etymologically, the word “blue” is present in Old English et al. with a meaning as vague as simply being “light-colored”. The limitations on what hues are considered “blue” are linguistically recent: recent enough that there are still artifacts of the more general usage still embedded in modern culture. A brief look at the Wikipedia category page for “Shades of Blue” illustrates this very well. Even now, the precise line between green and blue, and the precise line between blue and purple, are very poorly defined and not especially useful.
Lastly, while violets are most frequently a shade of purple, they can vary widely in color and are not always the shade meant by the contemporary English word violet (which, as a note, is not even the color represented by that crocus).
The poem describing them as blue is not, in fact, incorrect.
I love you, Trix
