Tanya Kelley
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Tanya Kelley is an adjunct professor of German and Spanish at the University of Missouri, Kansas City, where she received her Ph.D. in Linguistics and History of Science. Her dissertation was titled World to Word: Nomenclature Systems of Color and Species. Other publications include “Goethe's Plant Morphology: The Seeds of Evolution.”
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White, in physics, light seen by the human eye when all wavelengths of the visible spectrum combine. Like black, but unlike the colours of the spectrum and most mixtures of them, white lacks hue, so it is considered an achromatic colour. White and black are the most basic colour terms of languages.…
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