Does red rule English?
- POSTED ON: 24 May, 2019
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- POSTED BY: Geeta Padmanabhan | In School
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Did you know that after black and white, red was the third colour to be given a name? Amazingly, this seems to have happened in all languages! Perhaps our ancestors looked at blood and decided the colour had to be given a name. The colour is now symbolic of a range of sensations: anger, danger, passion and shame.
Let’s find out more about how ‘red’ seeped into our everyday phrases and idioms in English. Click on ‘turn’ to read about their origins.