Oranges

[Tom]

Were the fruit named after the colour or the colour after the fruit?

[bronaaaa]

Colour after fruit..I think
A chicken and egg thing?

[Brad.]

fruit after colour, surely?

[Lauren]

Wiki'd it.

"The colour is named after the orange fruit, introduced to Europe via the Sanskrit word nāranja. Before this was introduced to the English-speaking world, the colour was referred to (in Old English) as geoluhread, which translates into Modern English as yellow-red.
The first recorded use of orange as a colour name in English was in 1512,[1] in the court of King Henry VIII."

[Tom]

Wiki'd it.

"The colour is named after the orange fruit, introduced to Europe via the Sanskrit word nāranja. Before this was introduced to the English-speaking world, the colour was referred to (in Old English) as geoluhread, which translates into Modern English as yellow-red.
The first recorded use of orange as a colour name in English was in 1512,[1] in the court of King Henry VIII."

Trust you to come and spoil the fun :nono:

[Lauren]

;) My favourite hobby, especially if it's your thread I'm ruining, Tom :tongue:

[Ross]

get a room.

[Lauren]

LOL :( Burn.

[Shaun]

i dunno, let's ask supernoodles.

[Ross]

Lauren I love you #2. xo

[Ross]

i dunno, let's ask supernoodles.

LMFAO. omg.

[Harry!]

fruit named after the colour

[Z]

i dunno, let's ask supernoodles.

Wow. Just.. wow. I thought I knew you, man.

[Shaun]

Wow. Just.. wow. I thought I knew you, man.

i'm so noooorty.

[_Seth]

lol the colour after the fruit since in the stone age we wouldnt have bothered with colour named. Maybe when people decided to come up with names they where to lazy to think og one for orange so they just called it orange

that was a bitch of a handfull to type