[Redbook4:308][19880111:1600]{Blue-grey}[11th
January 1988]
19880111.1600
In
The Times today, Penny Perrick (p.13) reveals that [the] team working
on The Historical Thesaurus of English (in preparation for 1991) has
discovered that ' “Blue” didn't exist in Old English but was
classified as a shade of grey'. Apart from raising the slight
possibility that our range of sensitivity to Light is expanding at
least at one end, this fits beautifully with the ambiguity, overlap
and /or imprecision I have felt in Circles Analysis, from a very
early stage I think, in the M~ hemisphere (and/or particularly the S~
quarter), between blue, grey, silver and white.*
*{cf.
III.[[Redbook3:224][19870502:1855b]{White,
Grey, Blue (and Silver)}[2nd May 1987]]224}
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