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By *ild_oats OP   Man
over a year ago

the land of saints & sinners

Which Orange came first?

The colour or the fruit?

It makes a change from chicken or egg.....

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

That's spooky! My daughter asked me that yesterday. I didn't know, so following with interest to impress her when someone tells me the right answer

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Oh dear this is too much for my head today

I'll go fruit

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By *icecouple561Couple
Forum Mod
over a year ago

East Sussex

I believe it was the fruit

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Jason.

He always struck me as the fastest.

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By *hilledGuerillaMan
over a year ago

In the monkey house

The colour!! Natural state oranges are green and have a chemical sprayed on them to remove the chlorophyll.

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By *ssex_tomMan
over a year ago

Chelmsford

There was no name for the colour but it looked like an orange.. the name of the colour came from the fruit

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By *ssex_tomMan
over a year ago

Chelmsford


"The colour!! Natural state oranges are green and have a chemical sprayed on them to remove the chlorophyll. "

Nonsense..

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By *asmeenTV/TS
over a year ago

STOKE ON TRENT

Orange

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By *icecouple561Couple
Forum Mod
over a year ago

East Sussex

I think I read somewhere that the Spanish word "naranja" became "an orange" in English and the colour followed

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By *hilledGuerillaMan
over a year ago

In the monkey house


"The colour!! Natural state oranges are green and have a chemical sprayed on them to remove the chlorophyll.

Nonsense.. "

And selective breeding. Selective breeding also gave us orange carrots and water melons with a lot more edible flesh.

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By *ssex_tomMan
over a year ago

Chelmsford


"I think I read somewhere that the Spanish word "naranja" became "an orange" in English and the colour followed "

I like that explanation..

But I did read somewhere that they had no name for the colour apart from the fruit..not important to me but if you are William from Oranga

then it's a big issue..

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By *ockosaurusMan
over a year ago

Warwick

The orange fruit came before the word orange.

The fruit's name comes from a foreign name for the fruit (can't remember the language sorry), where they had a totally different word for the colour.

Before the fruit became popular in England, we didn't have a name for the colour.

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By *pursChick aka ShortieWoman
over a year ago

On a mooch

Came up as one of my lad’s random questions, so a little bit of Googling later and it was the fruit. The colour orange wasn’t used in English text until about 200 years later, although could have been in other languages prior to that

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

What ginger came first, my hair or the spice ?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"What ginger came first, my hair or the spice ?"

Your beautiful Moroccan sunset hair

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By *mmacdheelsTV/TS
over a year ago

France, Not in


"The orange fruit came before the word orange.

The fruit's name comes from a foreign name for the fruit (can't remember the language sorry), where they had a totally different word for the colour.

Before the fruit became popular in England, we didn't have a name for the colour."

The word orange comes from French. The French called it "pomme d'orenge" which then became shortened to orange in sixteenth century UK.

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By *he AmbassadorMan
over a year ago

IRLANDA. / Prague. / Cil Dara

Did Gingers exist before the fruit,,

If so then the colour came first..

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Before the English speaking world was introduced to the fruit the colour was called geoluread (yellowred) ... then it changed through different languages like french or spanish until the english decided to mash all 3 words together to make orange. .. so it was the fruit first

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By *ockosaurusMan
over a year ago

Warwick


"The orange fruit came before the word orange.

The fruit's name comes from a foreign name for the fruit (can't remember the language sorry), where they had a totally different word for the colour.

Before the fruit became popular in England, we didn't have a name for the colour.

The word orange comes from French. The French called it "pomme d'orenge" which then became shortened to orange in sixteenth century UK."

Yeah, but the French word for the colour is also orangé, so that just shifts the question to French.

Prior to the French terms, it came from somewhere else. Sanskrit I think.

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By *inky_couple2020Couple
over a year ago

North West


"The orange fruit came before the word orange.

The fruit's name comes from a foreign name for the fruit (can't remember the language sorry), where they had a totally different word for the colour.

Before the fruit became popular in England, we didn't have a name for the colour.

The word orange comes from French. The French called it "pomme d'orenge" which then became shortened to orange in sixteenth century UK.

Yeah, but the French word for the colour is also orangé, so that just shifts the question to French.

Prior to the French terms, it came from somewhere else. Sanskrit I think."

Etymology of naranja (Spanish):

Borrowed from Arabic ????????? (naranj), from Persian ?????? (nârang), from Sanskrit ?????? (nara?ga, “orange tree”). Compare Portuguese laranja and Catalan taronja.

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By *inky_couple2020Couple
over a year ago

North West


"The orange fruit came before the word orange.

The fruit's name comes from a foreign name for the fruit (can't remember the language sorry), where they had a totally different word for the colour.

Before the fruit became popular in England, we didn't have a name for the colour.

The word orange comes from French. The French called it "pomme d'orenge" which then became shortened to orange in sixteenth century UK.

Yeah, but the French word for the colour is also orangé, so that just shifts the question to French.

Prior to the French terms, it came from somewhere else. Sanskrit I think.

Etymology of naranja (Spanish):

Borrowed from Arabic ????????? (naranj), from Persian ?????? (nârang), from Sanskrit ?????? (nara?ga, “orange tree”). Compare Portuguese laranja and Catalan taronja."

The question marks are non Western alphabet

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By *ce WingerMan
over a year ago

P.O. Box DE1 0NQ


"The colour!! Natural state oranges are green and have a chemical sprayed on them to remove the chlorophyll. "

This man is a boffin ^

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By *uke olovingmanMan
over a year ago

Gravesend

The chocolate orange definitely came later

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