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Anonymous ID: bb41ac Jan. 25, 2020, 9:39 a.m. No.7911235   🗄️.is 🔗kun

Although "A" is represented by ten of the eleven colors (there was no case of a purple "A", but, then, as per Berlin and Kay (1969), purple is in the final set of four colors to be added), 11.5 (which makes for 30%) of the 38 examples I recorded placed "A" as being red. This is not overwhelming, but significant enough to be interesting, especially in light of previous studies which also indicated "A" to be red.

 

With 40 cases recorded, "E" shows itself to be most often yellow (11 instances for 28%) or white (8 cases for 20%). Taken together, that is 19 instances for 48%; almost half of the recorded cases of "E" placed it as a bright color, yellow to white.

 

The records from "I" are highly significant in that, of 38 instances, 10.9 (29%) indicated "I" to be black, and 10 (26%) indicated "I" to be white. In other words, 20.9 cases (55%) – well over half of all the synesthetes – saw "I" as being uncolored, black or white.

 

"O", however, seems to give the most straightforward information. Out of 38 instances recorded, 17.5 (46%) – almost half – indicated that "O" was white. This concords well with Baron-Cohen et al.'s (1993) findings regarding the prevalence of white O's among synesthetes.

 

"U" seems to be the one vowel that spans almost all (out of 36 instances, there was no orange) of the basic colors somewhat evenly. However, there does seem to be a slight tendency for "U" to be dark-colored.

 

Thus, while I must stress that they are at best generalities, among synesthetes who see letters as colored, most often "A" is red, "E" yellow/white, "I" black/white, and "O" white, whereas "U" cuts across the eleven basic colors.