r/MurderedByWords 20d ago

Murder Physicsduck has some choice words

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u/Phoenix2211 20d ago

Vi B. Gyor is a far better man than Roy G. Big can ever hope to be.

[It's interesting cuz apparently students in America learned ROYGBIV, meanwhile I (and other kids in India) learned it as VIBGYOR]

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u/saeljfkklhen 20d ago

Yeah, it's the same thing, just a different orientation.

And that's pretty cool.

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u/Phoenix2211 20d ago

Oh I knew that, was just wondering WHY the difference exists

Maybe because Roy is a Western name, so teachers in the West figured it'd be easier for kids to remember it as ROYgbiv.

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u/LivingAnomoly 19d ago

In the West we read/write left to right, some regions read/write right to left.