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Chris -- 2018-04-11
blue color workers – 860 ghits
blue colour workers – 97 ghits
Since blue is the colour of the collar in question it may be that some people think that ‘color’ or ‘colour’ is meant rather than collar – that they can’t all be mis-spellings seems clear from the BrEnglish ‘colour’ citations.
Records of annual health examinations were reviewed, and those of 3553 blue-color workers and 1860 white-color workers were used for analyses. ...
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi? … t=Abstract
Not only blue color workers, but also white color workers should be employed. Some observers may say that such a labor policy will take away Korean workers’ ...
www.koreafocus.or.kr/main_view.asp?volu … ode=101282 – 32k – Cached
The author randomly assigns exercise routines to blue-color workers, white-color workers, swimmers, boxers, wrestlers, ...etc without any compelling …
www.amazon.ca/Getting-Stronger-Training … 0679732691 – 61k – Cached
... the world partly because of the strong yen and partly due to the relatively small gap in incomes between white colour workers and blue colour workers. ...
homepage2.nifty.com/yas-igarashi/APMJ.htm – 51k – Cached
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