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In-Reply-To: <F105r5qWn3GCIFoPkG00001ac10@hotmail.com> from "Jorge Llambias" at Mar 14, 2002 07:30:16 PM
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Jorge Llambias scripsit:

> I will never forget "cyan" thanks to the
> Vic-20, although I have never had an occasion to
> use the word otherwise... It is a kind of light
> bluish greenish colour, something like what is
> used for painting swimming pools.

Most anglophones other than geeks or optical researchers
call that color "aqua[marine]".


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