Like green beans or the blue whale. Don't let it confuse you though because names are not always correct. The white rhino is gray and the black rhino is gray. It's just that the mud they roll in is black in that rhinos range or habitat and the mud is white in the other ones. The great white shark has a white belly like most sharks but it's back is dark gray, almost black.
2006-10-31 03:11:12
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answered by Professor Armitage 7
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Oranges come from Spain where there called Naranja (spelling?), In England we miss heard the Spaniards and called them orange. Only then did we call the colour orange. Carrots were called red before that!
The same with the metals. The metal was named first, and then the colour came from them! Most people would say that the thing was gold coloured, meaning that the thing was the colour of gold. This means that the colour doesn't have a name (perhaps shade of yellow), but the describer is using something of a similar colourthat the describee can recognise to describe the colour of an object whose colour has no name. This would usually just get shortened to the describer just saying that the object is gold, when the describee knows perfectly well that the object is not in fact made of gold, but does have a similar colour to gold. Does this make any sense! I know what I mean!
2006-10-31 10:07:42
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answered by Dunk 3
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"orange" is the only one I can think of ;-)
in this case, people used to call the colour "yellowred" (various spellings) until the late 17th century when the fruit arrived in large enough numbers for it to give its name to the fruit
another example, not valid in English though, is "purple". In French today, and in Latin back then, the equivalents, "pourpre" and "purpura", are / were the name for the mollusk from which the pigment comes, and for the pigment. By the way, in the US, say for many sports team, what is called "purple" is what in UK English would be called "violet" - whereas the "purple" of the Romans (or of most people today) would be a very intense red, which was typically used to colour the clothes of the most important people of the day.
2006-10-31 11:33:53
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answered by AntoineBachmann 5
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then there's lemon and apple and other stuff that are considered shades of colours, you could say orange is a shade of red. so no not really lots of things have the same name as colour no matter what came first- as an object name or colour name.
2006-10-31 10:06:55
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answered by charl203 3
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So people naming things relevant to color is strange to you ? Wait until you actually get out in the world ! You are in for a real roller coaster ride !
2006-10-31 10:03:49
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answered by kate 7
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There's a pink flower called "Pinks", also violets are violet, but "the blues" aren't really blue. And black people are actually various shades of brown. It's all so confusing.
2006-10-31 10:09:03
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answered by crazylittlewriterchick 2
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yea it is strange i like ur theroy maybe they decided that its more intresting 2 relate things 2 other things we know 2 mess with peoples heads lol
2006-11-03 16:41:41
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answered by xxxDeexxx 1
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i wonder that sometimes too, on the same basis..why is a fly called a fly ? because it flys ? , cant be that or frogs would be called hops. im off to get a life now
2006-10-31 10:10:29
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answered by Anonymous
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i do think orange is the only one though!
2006-10-31 10:00:21
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answered by Anonymous
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So does that mean Goth is a word for black
2006-10-31 10:12:29
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answered by colin050659 6
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