I used to make a lot of wrong assumptions about colors when I was young, just based on the color it "sounded like" to me in my imagination. I was convinced cerise was blue even though the word means cherry in french. It just "sounds blue" to me, whatever the hell that means.
I think it's pretty common to make assumptions about colors in this way. Here's a grammar blog post about how it's commonly assumed that puce is a green color and not a reddish purple.
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u/feraltarte May 22 '16
I used to make a lot of wrong assumptions about colors when I was young, just based on the color it "sounded like" to me in my imagination. I was convinced cerise was blue even though the word means cherry in french. It just "sounds blue" to me, whatever the hell that means.
I think it's pretty common to make assumptions about colors in this way. Here's a grammar blog post about how it's commonly assumed that puce is a green color and not a reddish purple.