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"If an orange is orange ,why isnt a lime called a green or a Lemon called a yellow ???? 
The name does't have to match the item....such as "biglad"...  "
Actually an orange is a hybrid cultivated between two other citrus fruits the mandarin and the pomelo. It was called a naranga in arabic and Indian and is still called naranja in Spanish so it probably developed into the word orange as the french had a habit of dropping off the first part of a word when developing their own language.
There was no name for the colour of orange in painting etc and the orange (fruit) was introduced to britain in the 13 or 14 hundreds. It was only named as a comparison to describe colour in the 17th century prior to that it was described as hues of red and yellow in painting.
I have lots of other citrus fruit facts regarding which came first the colour or the fruit but I know when to hide my nerdiness under a bushell......  |
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"If an orange is orange ,why isnt a lime called a green or a Lemon called a yellow ????
The name does't have to match the item....such as "biglad"...
Actually an orange is a hybrid cultivated between two other citrus fruits the mandarin and the pomelo. It was called a naranga in arabic and Indian and is still called naranja in Spanish so it probably developed into the word orange as the french had a habit of dropping off the first part of a word when developing their own language.
There was no name for the colour of orange in painting etc and the orange (fruit) was introduced to britain in the 13 or 14 hundreds. It was only named as a comparison to describe colour in the 17th century prior to that it was described as hues of red and yellow in painting.
I have lots of other citrus fruit facts regarding which came first the colour or the fruit but I know when to hide my nerdiness under a bushell...... "
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