Small English-Russian Dictionary from Svet

Part VII (The Rainbow)

Hello, the name of our theme today is "Rainbow". I hope you don't expect me to tell you about physical/material aspects of this wonderful nature appearance ;). That is really very interesting I think. You can read about physical aspects of rainbow in this article.

Here we'll discuss that rainbow is very beautiful and we imagine that you want to draw a rainbow. (Please, send me your pictures of rainbow and we'll have a small Rainbow exhibition here :)))). So we all want to draw a rainbow and do you remember what colors we need to have? In Russian we have a little phrase to remember an order of the 7 colors in rainbow. We all know from childhood this simple phrase:
"Каждый Охотник Желает Знать Где Сидит Фазан." (1)
Each first letter of a color in rainbow is the same as first letter in the word in this phrase. There are the 7 colors in the Rainbow and you can compare:
"Красный, Оранжевый, Жёлтый, Зелёный, Голубой, Синий, Фиолетовый." (2)
For the most inquisitive readers I'll translate this "magic" rainbow phrase (1): "Every hunter wants to know where pheasant sits". (Pheasant is a rather big bird in Russian woods). Do you have a "magic" phrase to remember rainbow colors on your native language?

But now let's talk about our exhibition. Oh, I already wait for your pictures! :)))
I think I must draw one by myself! So I'll go to a store to ask for some colors. And you can learn how I'll ask it from this table and translate the phrase (2) by yourself also.

Пока. Удачи!
Svet
PS. Read Kyle's article about Rainbow here.