Why is the grass 'gorm?' Here's another a very interesting image from John Murray's fantastic book 'Reading the Gaelic Landscape' - the traditional Gaelic colour spectrum! (although 'liath' is missing?) https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07B3Q417Y/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1 #gaidhlig #scottishgaelic

I am bad with colours (red-green colour blind) so I can't speak for how accurately this captures the spectrum ..... but I will now, in any case, use this image as my colour palette for data visualization on point of Hebridean principle. ;)

Also a deeper point about Gaelic revitalization in billingual world - I suspect very few people think in these colour terms now? Have we lost something by mapping these Gaelic names onto the Western division of the colour spectrum..?. & teaching this simplification in GME? Hmmm

I don't want my Gaelic to be gorm-less.

I just realized I am tweeting this from the Rubha Bàn which is a great example of interesting Gaelic colour usage... When you're talking about a rubha (headland), bàn means something like plain/uncultivated I think. When you're talking about a person, bàn means a blonde!