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Billy Barton 
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Did you know? The English word black and the Spanish blanco, like their French, Portuguese and Italian translations, have the same root.
As for English, the ancient saxon word originated two different modern words: bleak, thus colorless (we use to say "he's in bleak mood" considering a melanconic and lazy person), and black, the color.
But even black, even blanco have the same root, and at the beginning they all meant colorless. Only with the evolution of languages the two words got differentiated, the English one meaning black, and the other (like the other latin-derived languages) meaning white.
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