Not only Russians. I believe it's the other way around - in English you have the same name "blue" for two colors that exist in quite few languages. синий: http

Not only Russians. I believe it's the other way around - in English you have the same name "blue" for two colors that exist in quite few languages. синий: http://yandex.ua/yandsearch?text=%D1%81%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%B9&lr=141 http://yandex.ua/yandsearch?text=%D1%81%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0... голубой: http://yandex.ua/yandsearch?text=%D0%B3%D0%BE%D0%BB%D1%83%D0%B1%D0%BE%D0%B9&lr=141 http://yandex.ua/yandsearch?text=%D0%B3%D0%BE%D0%BB%D1%83%D0... It was a bit of mind-blowing to learn that English world for #0000ff is "blue" and then suddenly "The sky is blue" (what?! no it isn't #0000ff) The same thing goes for redheads - what? but this is not red!