2006-07-24 14:56:51 · 11 answers · asked by paul S 1 in Food & Drink ➔ Entertaining
Sounds like the chicken or the egg thing what came first the color or the fruit.
2006-07-24 15:27:07 · answer #1 · answered by My kids are driving me CRAZY!!!! 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
the name comes from the spanish naranja, which english speakers mutated into norange, people would ask for "a norange" which sounded like "an orange", thus we got "orange". presumably the colour is named after the fruit.
2006-07-25 01:09:15 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think they derived the color orange from the fact that the fruit had that name...so they made that color that name (sorry sounds a bit like a tongue twister)
2006-07-24 14:59:37 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Could be. Why are tomatoes, tomato red or limes.lime green? something to think about isn't it? I could have made the first brick and said look at that smossh building thing I made, We'd all be living in smossh houses
2006-07-24 20:11:27 · answer #4 · answered by Pat C 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They were probably called oranges because they are orange.
2006-07-24 15:12:37 · answer #5 · answered by engineer 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Originally they where green but I think it was Nell Gwen that changed the colour
2006-07-25 06:20:48 · answer #6 · answered by Dave S 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No not really. Bananas are not merely bananas either.
2006-07-25 00:08:16 · answer #7 · answered by one_faithful_mo 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes! What are the chances, eh? Silver, Gold... any others?
2006-07-24 15:04:11 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yeah, but didn't they get the color from the fruit?
2006-07-24 15:20:07 · answer #9 · answered by Bee 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
well they woulda sounded pretty daft if somone had called them tartans wouldnt they
2006-07-24 15:03:12 · answer #10 · answered by omnigomni 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋