The pink and blue conundrum (second time around)

I apologize that I posted this as a second post on the same day as another one...so I removed it and reposted it today. If you've already read it, you can skip today! 

 When you see a light red color, it is called what? Pink, of course!

And thanks for comment from John below which tells how pink came to have that name...

When you see a light blue color, what is it called? 

Light blue! How unimaginative!! The sky is various shades of just  - blue.

The artist in me is bewildered by that. And pink and blue for babies was originally supposed to be pink for boys, and blue for girls.

Baby Blue Eyes (the kind that doesn't change to another color as they grow older!

Cerulean Blue paint...showing a lighter hue

Cobalt Blue paint, showing the lighter hue.

I don't know why this came into my mind the other day, but I just thought I'd share it and see what you thought of it!

Comments from first publication (in error) but hey, I had no idea when I clicked publish that it would do it right then...I usually have dated the post before I type a word. Oops.

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gz commented on "The pink and blue conundrum"

6 hours ago

Good point! One does wonder..which is a good thing to do

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John "By Stargoose And Hanglands" commented on "The pink and blue conundrum"

7 hours ago

The names of colours is an interesting topic and has changed over time. The colour pink gets its name from the flower, not the other way around. The flowers gets its name from the jagged "pinked" edge to the petal - you know, like pinking shears. Similarly there used to be no colour "orange" until the fruit became common in Britain, before that the shade we get from 

mixing red and yellow was considered just a shade of red - hence things which are clearly orange have names like "red fox" and "robin redbreast". In the Irish language there was no equivalent of "brown" which accounts for dogs being described as "yellow" in translations of some old songs.