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SOURCES AND FURTHER READING
Colour Last Names: https://surnames.behindthename.com/names/tag/colors
Mr. Black & Ms. White: https://www.grammarphobia.com/blog/2014/09/color-surnames.html
How Surnames Begun: http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/familyhistory/get_started/surnames_01.shtml#:~:text=Surnames%20deriving%20from%20a%20place,are%20obvious%2C%20other%20less%20so.
How 'Washington' Became the Blackest Name in America: https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2011/02/how-washington-became-the-blackest-name-in-america/71511/
Why is the surname Gray more common than the surname Grey in the UK?: https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/194329/why-is-the-surname-gray-more-common-than-the-surname-grey-in-the-uk
Pink: https://www.surnamedb.com/Surname/Pink#:~:text=Last%20name%3A%20Pink&text=Recorded%20in%20the%20spellings%20of,and%20cheerful%20as%20a%20chaffinch.
Chaffinch Calls: https://www.bl.uk/the-language-of-birds/articles/chaffinch-calls#
Purple: https://www.surnamedb.com/Surname/Purple
Orange: https://www.surnamedb.com/Surname/Orange
House of Orange: https://www.britannica.com/topic/House-of-Orange