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* black and white
* red
* green yellow
* blue
* brown
* purple pink orange grey


Does this mean that English is extremely sophistocated with maroon, indigo, teal, crimson, scarlet, beige and navy being common words?

Not really. We're only talking about basic colours. Crimson and scarlet are types of red so they don't count. Similarly navy is a type of blue and beige is a type of brown. As for maroon, indigo, and teal, have you ever tried to get a group of people, never mind AWADers, to agree on what colours these words actually refer to? The basic colours may have fuzzy boundaries, but everyone who isn't actually colour blind agrees on the central colour covered by each term.



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