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Color Frequency on the Web, Book Titles, Bible, Shakespeare, Emily Dickinson Color Google Search* Book Titles*1 Bible2 Shakespeare3 Emily Dickinson4 Red 1,500,000,000 6555 51 96 32 + 25 = 57 Orange 571,000,000 1360 0 2 1 + 1 = 2 Yellow 741,000,000 992 5 30 29 + 11 = 40 Green 1,190,000,000 3681 39 106 18 + 35 = 53 Blue 1,440,000,000 4151 48 28 35 + 42 = 77 Indigo 26,000,000 75 0 0 1 + 0 = 1 Violet 107,000,000 198 0 9 6 + 4 = 10 White 1,460,000,000 9529 71 149 27 + 36 = 63 Black 1,960,000,000 12686 16 175 8 + 30 =38 Brown 565,000,000 2690 4 24 9 + 30 = 39 Crimson 51,700,000 105 5 14 6 + 8 = 14 Gray 190,000,000 997 10 42 6 + 15 = 21 Pink 492,000,000 260 0 3 14 + 16 = 30 Purple 276,000,000 236 53 18 53 + 14 = 67 * Survey on February 13, 2008 1 Title search of books at Stanford Library 2 The Complete Concordance to the Bible (New King James Version)    Thomas Nelson Publishers, Nashville, TN (1983) 3 Marvin Spevack, The Harvard Concordance to Shakespeare (1973)    Open Source Shakespeare Concordance    (red 94, orange 4, yellow 28, green 106, white 148, black 174, brown 21, grey 45, purple 17) 4 Frequency of color usage from the Poems & Letters of Emily Dickinson    S.P. Rosenbaum, A Concordance to the Poems of Emily Dickinson (1964)    Cynthia MacKenzie, Concordance to the Letters of Emily Dickinson (2000) Color Symbolism In Buddhist Art Color Symbolism in Buddhist Traditions Buddhist Flag Color Symbolism      — Peter Y. Chou          Mountain View, 2-13-2008 These notes were inspired by Elaine Scarry's seminar "Imagining Colors" at Stanford on February 13, 2008

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