What color is "puce", and why do different people give radically ...
2012年5月25日 · EDIT II: To answer the question, people may associate puce with green because they confuse "puce" with "puke." This article , which asserts that Louis XVI coined "puce" to describe the color of one of Marie-Antoinette's dresses (which, truth be told, is a sort of pukey green) may lend credence to this theory.
orthography - The spelling "ui" and the pronunciation /uː/ in juice ...
2019年7月8日 · Neither of those spellings has any particular issue with representing the sound of the word: -uce and -use are used in the spelling of some words that rhyme with juice, such as puce, spruce, truce, reduce, use, abuse. Your suggestion of influence from other words spelled with "ui" seems the best explanation to me.
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2016年11月27日 · What color is "puce", and why do different people give radically different answers (purplish vs greenish)? 13 In English you have 'above', 'on', 'over' and 'on top of' but in Italian one word, 'sopra', covers all four meanings