The colours of the rainbow in English which children learn at school are:
Red orange yellow green blue indigo violet.
The mnemonic (memory aid) is
Read Out Your Green Book In Verse.
French colours
rouge orange jaune vert bleu violette
(Nobody ever says indigo in any language, unless they work in printing, dyeing, clothes marketing or paint matching.)
The French colours are easy to remember.
Rouge, the red colour women put on their cheeks. Moulin rouge is the red windmill, a landmark entertainment centre in London in the old days. Vin rouge is red wine.
Orange is the same in French. The Spanish is naranja. Originally we said a naranja and eventually the n moved and it became not a n o r a n g e but an orange.
Un is French for one or an.
Jaune is easy to remember as yellow if you see J and Y as being similar in shape when hand written.
Vert - as in the name of the designer of women's clothes, Jacques Vert, in English Jack Green. Green grass grows vertically - upwards. The verge (edge of the lawn or grassy area) is green.
Bleu is almost the same spelling as blue. Just reverse the last two letters. Cordon bleu is awarded to good cooking, a fine French cookery school. A cordon is a ribbon or line. (A police cordon ropes off or goes around a crime scene.)
Violet or Violette is the name of a flower and a girl's name.
If you are reading wine labels, blanc is white. Blanc de blanc is white wine from white grapes. Blanche is a girl's name used in English as well. Notice the e on the end, a feminine word ending.
Angela Lansbury, English teacher and tutor, writer and speaker.
Red orange yellow green blue indigo violet.
The mnemonic (memory aid) is
Read Out Your Green Book In Verse.
French colours
rouge orange jaune vert bleu violette
(Nobody ever says indigo in any language, unless they work in printing, dyeing, clothes marketing or paint matching.)
The French colours are easy to remember.
Rouge, the red colour women put on their cheeks. Moulin rouge is the red windmill, a landmark entertainment centre in London in the old days. Vin rouge is red wine.
Orange is the same in French. The Spanish is naranja. Originally we said a naranja and eventually the n moved and it became not a n o r a n g e but an orange.
Un is French for one or an.
Jaune is easy to remember as yellow if you see J and Y as being similar in shape when hand written.
Vert - as in the name of the designer of women's clothes, Jacques Vert, in English Jack Green. Green grass grows vertically - upwards. The verge (edge of the lawn or grassy area) is green.
Bleu is almost the same spelling as blue. Just reverse the last two letters. Cordon bleu is awarded to good cooking, a fine French cookery school. A cordon is a ribbon or line. (A police cordon ropes off or goes around a crime scene.)
Violet or Violette is the name of a flower and a girl's name.
If you are reading wine labels, blanc is white. Blanc de blanc is white wine from white grapes. Blanche is a girl's name used in English as well. Notice the e on the end, a feminine word ending.
Angela Lansbury, English teacher and tutor, writer and speaker.
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