#7
Robin's egg and sky blue are not official names of colours. They are ways to describe a colour.
However cyan is an official name that is used in English.
If you look at a Spectrum home computer you would see it over the 5 key.
Sinclair being an English company would label their products according to the rules of English language, don't you think?
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However cyan is an official name that is used in English. If you look at a Spectrum home computer you would see it over the 5 key. Sinclair being an English company would label their products according to the rules of English language, don't you think?
Huh? You're a queer duck. Aside from continuing to argue an utterly irrelevant tangent based on your complete misunderstanding of #4's post, there is no "rule" (of an "official" sort or otherwise) about what to call light blue in English. The English language does not have a governing body that issues such decrees. Historically, as the Ngram shows, cyan+ has been far, far less common than +azure+, though in recent years +cyan+ is making headway. +Cyan is routinely used by professional printers and graphic artists, but many native speakers will never have uttered the word even one single time in their entire lives.
I discovered something while researching for the Overmorrw thread.
Several languages, including Urdu, Gujarati, Panjabi and Hindi there is one word that means both yesterday and tomorrow. Context is used to figure out which one is meant. Same for day before yesterday & day after tomorrow.