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From: rharmsen@knoware.nl (Ruud Harmsen)
Subject: letters, colours, numbers
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Some people associate letters, sounds, colours and numbers with each other. 
There is a word for the phenomenon, but I don't remember. 
But more interestingly: are there common patterns in this, or is it 
differently for everybody? For example, for me it is obvious (from an very 
early age), that:
- a, 6, red 
- r, 3, green
- ?, 2, yellow
- ?, 4, brown/yellow
- e, 7 or 5, blue
- i, 0 or 1, white
- o and u, ?, dark brownish or black colours

Some of these are so strong that I have difficulty writing them down, I 
sometimes say  three when I mean green (also three as _written_ is yelloish).
It was difficult for me to learn the resistor colour-codes, where red is 2, 
etc., impossible combinations.
Some people have this with musical scales too, it seems, but I haven't.
