And the fruit’s name is different from other countries’ names for it because “a naranj” was misheard as “an orange” and it stuck. Yellow-red wasn’t much adopted, though it did exist. Such is language, what a fun collective hallucination.
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VindictiveJudge@lemmy.world 2 weeks agoSimilarly, the red fox is clearly orange, but English speakers were exposed to that species of fox before developing a word for that specific color. For bonus linguistical oddities, ‘orange’ was used for the fruit before it was used for the color.
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JamieDub86@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
Or the red squirrel, which is brown.
TisI@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
And red hair.