DH isn't colour blind, but to him there's no such colour as turquoise - it's
either blue or green.
Well... I always thought that turquoise was "greeny-*blue*", but I've seen some that was almost entirely green... As Brenda says, "peach" is a vague colour too (apricot is more reliable, though <g>)... And there are others, like "jade" or "amber". And you never know what you're going to get when you order something, sight-unseen, just by such a name; it depends on which particular version of "peach" or "amber" or "jade" the poducer might have in mind. Recently, I came across "hibiscus" (Pipers silks)... Sigh... As if hibiscus had only one shade :) And: "avocado" -- do we mean the innards or the skin? And, if the skin, is it the skin of the really "bumpy" one (v dark) or the smooth one (much brighter). "Olive"? the "black" one or the green one? And never mind "celery" -- when was the last time those people went grocery shopping? Or anywhere shopping? Stones are being irradiated, so you get green amber and blue topaz, flowers are cross-pollinated till lilac can be red...
But I think, men in general (colour blind or no) tend to agonise less about the tiny differences in *shades*; mine certainly does. To him, "brown" is "brown", and the shade of it is immaterial. He even told me once (the nerve! <g>) that the ensemble I was wearing was wrong -- his mother always told him that brown and black didn't "go together". Yes, maybe, but the "brown" in question was mahogany, and on the red side of it at that...
----- Tamara P Duvall Lexington, Virginia, USA Formerly of Warsaw, Poland http://lorien.emufarm.org/~tpd/
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