To demand that GROWN is recognised as a colour.

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My 13 year old has just discovered (how...!!) that my 16 year old and I both have hazel eyes.

However she is demanding that the word Hazel is removed from the eye colour chart and replaced with grown (to rhyme with brown) which is “more accurate and not wrong” (unlike hazel which is inaccurate and wrong)

It would describe my husband's eye colour perfectly. YANBU.

To be fair... this DD has form. She was the one who can’t understand why sanitary towels aren’t known as Knicker Stickers (hence my username)

Yep I have grown eyes. They are definitely not brown

Trouble is "hazel eyes" sound as beautiful as they are, whereas "grown eyes" sound like you've fallen over on an allotment. 🤷🏻‍♀️

I prefer breen .

I agree with the allotment analogy. I often say that DD1 was born in a blizzard - which she was - but it makes it sound like I had her in a ditch at the side of the road...

Breen is also an option but I suspect that may also be “wrong”. Lots of things are “wrong” in the opinion of DD2

Could you tell her that at least ‘breen’ isn’t a homonym?

My son used to call trampolines "jumpolines" which did make perfect sense. I imagine he was a lot younger than your DD is. Anyway my point is she can say what she likes as long as it isn't offensive

My dad and grandson both have hazel eyes. They're both happy with it being described cascsuch.

Hazel is a nice sound, though, but grown sounds like a fungal infection

I have grown eyes too , or should I call them khaki ?

DD2 would find khaki wrong. It’s not descriptive enough, and implies camouflage and she can actually see our eyes. (Despite not having a clue what colour they were until 90 minutes ago).

Grown may sound fungal but it is “accurate”. DD2 has her ways.

My partner's eyes ate this colour. We refer to our as murk.

linguists call it 'grue' - many languages break up the colours green/grey/blue differently to English :)

Yes, Grown doesn't work. Mine I say are blue, as they don't have enough hazel to say hazel.
My Sister has more of an orangy ginger so we just say Hazel.
Ds2 has the green, orangy, ginger and brown all together. That could be Grown.

How old is you dd? She sounds amazing!

She is 13, and particularly particular.

Approved! Always a big fan of people who think like she does :)

Backboiler* we have jumpolines here too

@SpoonBlender - Lordy, there are more of them...!!! I wish she was putting her laundry away rather than rewriting the acceptance list of eye colours

I thought this was going to be about wine bottle colours. Is it brown? Is it green? Who knows? Why is recycling so difficult?

She must be related to my DS who came home from a play date fascinated by the fact they had white, yellow, brown and red ketchup. He'd only seen red ketchup before and his mind was blown. Mainly because we said white, yellow and brown ketchup were not actually called white, yellow and brown ketchup which he thought was plain stupid.

@TwoHeadedYellowBelliedHoleDig - your son is right. You are wrong. Says DD2

Can you please ask DD2 what color my eyes are? I often say ginger, but that is not quite right. They are brown but orange(ish) brown, lighter than brown, with a ginger tone. NOT brown I say.

Ask her please. She will know the answer. :)