if you open your eyes in a pitch-black room
the color you’ll see is called
‘eigengrau.’
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in honor of our upcoming switch back to daylight savings time.
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credits: mental floss, pinterest photo
Mar9
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I didn't have my glasses on.... 
Of course, I didn’t know that but its always nice to learn a new word ! 🙂
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next time you are in a room with others (who you won’t be able to see), in that situation, you can speak out with that word, and surprise them. )
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Sounds like some sort of exotic Alpine flower. “The Eigengrau blossom is so wonderful this spring, my darling”
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Sound of music flashback
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Indeed! 😀
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That’s a color with a name! I’m tickled pink to know this.
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isn’t it great?
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I never knew, Beth!
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always something…..)
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Oooooh
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Yessssss
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Errr…how do you pronounce it? ay eye gen graw? ♥(ˆ⌣ˆԅ)
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Yikes!
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And all this time I thought it was called black or pitch black. Thank you for shedding light on the darkness.
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Ha – I am a fountain of useless info –
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I’ll never remember that word but it’s fascinating to know it exists.
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Yes, just that-
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It will be easier for me to say “I opened my eyes and saw the color Beth described in her blog I Didn’t Have My Glasses on, March 9, 2018”. 😉
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Ha – that is probably so true)
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I learn such interesting things from you Beth. I didn’t know thanks.
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i am always learning as well, kat –
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I have never heard of that word! How interesting!
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it really is, isn’t it?
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I get to read the most interesting things in your posts 🙂
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i’m glad to hear that )
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very timely
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Here we go –
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Beth, “Eigengrau” was not in my 4-inch-thick dictionary, but “eigen” is a prefix that means “peculiar to,” and it is German. I wanted to learn how to pronounce it, so if you speak German, you can probably figure it out. They say if you use a word three times in conversation or writing, you will remember it forever. I am in the eigengrou about how to pronounce this word.
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i found a site with the pronunciation – sounds like ‘eye-gin-grow’ (rhymes with pie-sin-now) . hope this helps but may plunge you even deeper into the eigengrau.
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Yippee! I can’t wait to use it in conversation. Thanks.
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just throw it out there and see what happens )
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WOW!
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👀
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What a great Jeopardy question/answer!
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Now, you’ll win !
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Where do you come up with stuff? I love learning new words.
Now, can you teach me how to spell this?
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It’s all out there in the world, waiting to be discovered- a German word, spelled as you see it in this post, commit it to memory or yell it out next time you’re in that situation)
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