In Australia, the middle light *is* orange (sometimes called amber)
On 30/03/2013 6:01 AM, "Fabrizio Giudici" <[email protected]>
wrote:

> On Fri, 29 Mar 2013 16:36:37 +0100, Ricky Clarkson <
> [email protected]> wrote:
>
>  And the English call it amber, even though traffic lights presumably
>> On Fri, Mar 29, 2013 at 7:02 AM, Cédric Beust ♔ <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>  On a related note, French call the middle light orange, and not yellow.
>>>
>>
> It's fun... After Cédric said the orange thing, I was going to answer that
> even in "old" italian (decades ago) the middle light was "orange". I
> googled for searching for a reference, and discovered that somebody is
> still using "orange" today - to give numbers, 70k results for the italian
> equivalent of "semaphore orange" versus 197k results for "semaphore
> yellow". Even though I've never heard of it in spoken language.
>
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