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Date: Sun, 09 Apr 2017 22:21:13 +0100
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On Sun, 09 Apr 2017 22:13:38 +0100, Rene Lamontagne <rlamont@shaw.ca> wrote:

> On 4/9/2017 4:06 PM, James Wilkinson Sword wrote:
>> On Sun, 09 Apr 2017 21:33:40 +0100,  wrote:
>>
>>> On 2017-04-09 18:34:22 +0000, "James Wilkinson Sword"
>>> <imvalid@somewear.com> said:
>>>
>>>> On Thu, 06 Apr 2017 18:52:32 +0100, Ken Blake <Ken@invalid.news.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On Wed, 05 Apr 2017 23:07:13 -0500, Char Jackson <none@none.invalid>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>> I've seen many hundreds of 'barn red' barns, but I don't think I've
>>>>>> ever
>>>>>> seen one I'd call 'brownish'. I wonder if that's a Canadian thing?
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> ''I've never seen anything I would call "brownish."   <g>
>>>>
>>>> What would you call something that was nearly brown then?
>>>
>>> Tan
>>
>> Only women add extra words for colours.  Men just use about ten common
>> names, then add adjectives or use two colours.
>>
>
> Maybe in England, But here in Canada we have lots of different colours.
> sometimes we even use Hex numbers instead of names.  :-)

Canadians are rather effeminate though.

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