Re: Ordinals in English.

On Thu, 18 Sep 2008 09:20:58 -0700 (PDT), "Peter T. Daniels"
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in sci.lang:

[...]

In ModE, purple is a primary color-name and violet is the
name of a flower [...]

Not for everyone. My default interpretation of 'violet' in
isolation is the color.

Brian
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