Color terms from different cultures around the world
A) vary in arbitrary ways.
B) are pretty much the same everywhere, with the exception of colors in the blue-green spectrum.
C) vary in that some cultures only have color words for red and green, whereas other cultures only have color words for blue and yellow.
D) all correspond to a small number of different possible sets of terms.
E) do not consistently contain a word for "black."

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Research has shown that while there is variation in color terms across cultures, they tend to correspond to a limited number of sets, as proposed by the Berlin and Kay theory of basic color terms.

Color Terms from Different Cultures Around the World