to be annoyed with Cbeebies for getting the rainbow wrong?

[ZingOfSeven]

Katie and another girl just arranged coloured pencils on this order

red
yellow
orange
green
blue
indigo
violet



either teach something properly or don't bovver innit?

[MovingOnUpMovingOnOut]

As someone who once tried to cook a savoury muffin using a CBeebies recipe I feel this is relatively minor.

You don't mess with food

[HighwayDragon]

Richard
Of
York
Gave
Battle
In
Vain

yanbu!

On a similar note we used to do
my
very
easy
method
just
speeds
up
naming
planets

now poor pluto has been demoted its
my
very
easy
method
just
speeds
up
nothing

[ratspeaker]

Indigo was a pigment of Newtons imagination.

[Sixgeese]

My planets one is
Micky Vaulted Easily, Mark Jumped Slowly Up Near Paul.

It's strange we have the same acronym for the colours of the rainbow but different ones for the planets.

[cornflakegirl]

I'm with Tiggy and ratspeaker. When I was a kid, it really bothered me that I couldn't see the indigo bit when I looked at a rainbow. I was so happy when I learned that it's because it's not actually there!

[mawbroon]

LOL at pigment of Newton's imagination!!

[eltsihT]

My favourite rainbow mnemonic is "run over your granny because it's violent"

[Discopanda]

Katie is responsible for both the savoury muffin recipe (she also presents I can Cook) and this new rainbow travesty, we should start a petition to get her removed.

[Hatespiders]

We were always taught 'Richard Of York Gained Battles In Vain'.
I don't think one 'gives' battle?

[PurpleSwift]

Yanbu.

But pluto is a planet.

[HollyAndIvyTime]

No, no, no, no, no. It's:

My Very Earnest Man, Just Show Us Nine (Planets).

Obviously learnt some time ago! :)

Yy to 'Richard of York gave battle in vain'.

[CatIshoo]

Pluto is a dwarf planet. My son gets very twitchy when someone calls it a planet (he was very indignant when his teacher told the class it was a planet, not that he said anything, he was 6)

He know the most random things about the solar system.

[NewEraNewMindset]

Where did this indigo and violet shit appear in British education? I am nearly 40 and have never heard of the Richard of York thang.

I learnt: red and yellow and pink and green, purple and orange and bluuuue. I can sing a rainbow, sing a rainbow, sing a rainbow too.

Not once to I recall violet or indigo being mentioned. Izzit coz I'm a Gimmer.

[mawbroon]

Listen with your ears was another gem from that song that I remember

[mawbroon]

Doh, no it was Listen with your EYES!

[ZingOfSeven]

mawbroon

[ZingOfSeven]

goodboy

My Very Elegant Mother Just Scrubs Up Nicely

that is sooo MN!

[Tanith]

I looked it up for DS. They reckon that Newton would have known the colours differently. His blue would have been more of a greeny blue or turquoise colour, while the indigo would have been the true mid blue.

So, according to that, it should be red, orange, yellow, green, turquoise or cyan, blue and violet or purple.

Makes more sense to me that way.

Mnemonic anyone?

[OneMillionScovilles]

Planets: Make Very Easy Mash, Just Squash Up New Potatoes

[Pico2]

A rainbow is a full spectrum, so it is fairly arbitrary as to how you divide it into colours. The thing that puzzles me about colours is why pink isn't just referred to as light red.

[hazeyjane]

Rinse Out Your Greasy Boots Vigorously

Red Orange Yellow Green Blue Violet

no indigo, because it doesn't make sense, you might as well have light green or orangey red as a separate colour

Each alternate colour should be able to make up the colour in between continuously like this....

red orange yellow green blue violet red orange yellow green blue violet red orange etc (red + yellow = orange, yellow + blue = green, blue + red = violet, red+ yellow = orange etc etc)

I can't quite believe I typed all that out!

[Delarosa]

Who cares ffs

[MrsNBM]

I remember being in primary school and being taught
Red and yellow and pink and green, orange and purple and blue for the rainbow then Richard of York instead in high school
As for planets it was
My Very English Mother Jumped Straight Under Nellys Pussy..... Cat
I still laugh childishly at that one!