Agnes by Tony Cochran for March 20, 2016

I does sound very familiar!

That’s EXACTLY how I would answer that question.Almost all OR questions can be answered yes.

One of the First Nations has no word for “orange” because there are no flowers that colour where they live. I think it’s Navajo, but don’t quote me.

I remember this strip also and I don’t remember much! I even seem to remember grandma having the thought bubble instead of Agnes.

Similarly, many ancient peoples had no word for blue before the Egyptians coined one (they were among the first to make blue dye).

http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=orange

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http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?allowed_in_frame=0&search=blue

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It occurs to me that there may have been another name for the color before there was a common object OF that color. It would be natural to start referring to the color using the same word as the common object. My kumquats are orange, just imagine if they had been well known first, the word for the color “orange” might well be kumquat..(By the way, if you actually look at school buses, you will notice they are actually orange, not yellow.)

Agnes Apr 19 2014

x-Tech, I GUESS THE POWERS THAT BE, still won’t allow us to reply in certain “scenarios”, so to reply to your re=post of Agnes, my reply to the *STRIP IS:

Don’t deny it, WOMAN! WEAR IT WITH PRIDE!

And to today’s strip, YOU ROCK, GRANDMA! YES, (“YES” YOU DO, lol!)