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   Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Wednesday, 13-Mar-2024 08:02:44 JST Paul Cantrell

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   • Ned Yeung
   • Passenger

   @passenger @ned
   Brings to mind what I consider to be the definitive work on the subject: https://blog.xkcd.com/2010/05/03/color-survey-results/

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     Passenger (passenger@kolektiva.social)'s status on Wednesday, 13-Mar-2024 08:02:45 JST Passenger

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     • Ned Yeung

     @ned

     The word "purple" comes from the ancient Greek "porphura", referring to Tyrian dye, which is what we would today call "red." (It's roughly #990024.) The word has sometimes also been used to describe arterial blood, which is also usually considered red.

     Basically, we've been confusing the two colours for as long as those words have existed.

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     Ned Yeung (ned@mstdn.ca)'s status on Wednesday, 13-Mar-2024 08:02:47 JST Ned Yeung

     As are red cabbage.