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I was looking at domain names using Instant Domain Search, and I tried some domains consisting of words (or noises) that are commonly repeated over and over. Or rather, if you hear a repeated word or noise, chances are good that the word or noise is one of these words …

The Language Log's discussion of umami got me thinking about Berlin and Kay's research on basic color terms. An explanatory quote from their post:

[H]ere's a quote from I.E.T. de Araujo, M. L. Kringelbach, E. T. Rolls, and P. Hobden, Representation of Umami Taste in the Human …