>tend to cringe a little, for instance, when an author describes a >flower as "mauve," one of the most ill-defined English color terms. **And just out of curiosity, how do people on this list describe 'mauve'. I can see what I think of as 'mauve' in my mind's eye, but to describe it.... -- susan, who is..... owned by Jasper & Schubert the Standard Poodles, Gracie the Rhodesian, Pup-Quiz the Basenji and their Basenji brother, Jones.... on the North Coast of CA, USA susanann@sbcglobal.net, copyright 2004