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Tom 22-11-2009 05:17 PM

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

bronaaaa 22-11-2009 05:25 PM

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

Brad. 22-11-2009 05:28 PM

fruit after colour, surely?

Lauren 22-11-2009 05:29 PM

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 22-11-2009 05:31 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Lauren (Post 2699876)
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 22-11-2009 05:50 PM

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

Ross 22-11-2009 05:51 PM

get a room.

Lauren 22-11-2009 05:53 PM

LOL :( Burn.

Shaun 22-11-2009 05:58 PM

i dunno, let's ask supernoodles.

Ross 22-11-2009 05:59 PM

Lauren I love you #2. xo

Ross 22-11-2009 06:00 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Shaun (Post 2699968)
i dunno, let's ask supernoodles.

LMFAO. omg.

Harry! 22-11-2009 06:02 PM

fruit named after the colour

Z 22-11-2009 06:32 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Shaun (Post 2699968)
i dunno, let's ask supernoodles.

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

Shaun 22-11-2009 06:39 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Zee (Post 2700088)
Wow. Just.. wow. I thought I knew you, man.

i'm so noooorty.

_Seth 22-11-2009 06:51 PM

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


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