[at-l] colouring

[shane at theplacewithnoname.com (Shane Steinkamp)]

> How come when you want something to be whiter, you 'whiten' it. Like
> toothpaste will whiten teeth. And, if you want something blacker, you
> 'blacken' it. Like some fish are 'blackened'. But, you never hear of
> someone wanting their lawn to 'greenen'. Or, when the sky clears, it
> hasn't 'blueened'.  I'm just wondering.

When I get stuck on stuff like that, I just ask myself, "If I were a fish,
what kind of fish would I be?" and somehow that makes it all better.

Shane