Re: Ordinals in English.

On Sep 18, 6:53 pm, Harlan Messinger
<hmessinger.removet...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Adam Funk wrote:

Incidentally, I understand that Newton originally described five
colours in the spectrum, then added orange and indigo to make the
total up to seven for mathematical-mystical reasons.

It wasn't because Roy G. Biv sounded cool?-

I've never understood why people need mnemonics for the colors or the
planets.

Signs of the Zodiac, sure.

The ramble twins crab liverish;
Scaly scorpions are good water fish.

(From H. A. Rey, The Stars: A New Way to See Them. Only decades later
did I learn that he was also the Curious George guy.)
.

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