In article , Nick Maclaren
writes
Er, scarlet IS red! It may be a particular red, but it is assuredly
a red. So Kay Easton's statement was perfectly correct, and I am
afraid your musket of pedantry has just discharged itself into your
foot.

To paraphrase the late great Henry Ford, "You can have any colour you
like as long as it is black" ..... and any colour will look black in a
woody area in the shade of night. Musket of pedantry my foot! :-))
--
Alan Gould