Colour words
Basic colour words are simple, but the shade names almost all come from French and keep their original vowels: beige, mauve, taupe. Fuchsia is the famous trap, spelled after the botanist Fuchs but pronounced few-sha. Listen for the single-syllable French vowels.
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