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Thursday, 26 May 2016

Minty fresh: a rant.

Look, why is mint green:

File:1978 Mintgreen VW Kever, 4e Aad Kortekaas, 24 April 2016 pic3.JPG
(photo Alf van Beem)

 nothing like the colour of mint?

Minze.jpg
Mentha spicata

It's enough to drive people crazy, you know.

Word To Use Today: some sort of green that's actually the colour it claims to be. I suppose bottle green comes quite close. 

The word mint comes from the Old English minte, from the Greek minthē.


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