People blind from birth use colour terms competently
People who are blind from birth but use colour terms correctly lack the usual semantic hookup but still display linguistic competence. For example, they can say: "the sky is blue" and  "you shouldn't wear an orange tie with a red jacket".

Richard Sharvy, 1983, p.129.
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People blind from birth use colour terms competently
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