There has been a significant amount of recent scholarship on this topic since this Straight Dope article was published (in 1986): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/

There has been a significant amount of recent scholarship on this topic since this Straight Dope article was published (in 1986): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistic_relativity_and_the_color_naming_debate#Recent_scholarship http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistic_relativity_and_the_c...