2006-12-12 05:10:52 · 21 answers · asked by psychodad 3 in Food & Drink ➔ Other - Food & Drink
Would be a little strange sounding . 2 kg of blues please. !!!
2006-12-12 05:23:07 · update #1
No it would be called a blue, oranges are only called oranges because they are orange. Most fruits have a few different colours in them like an apple so they can't just be called green. But blackberries are black so that's why they are called black, same as blueberries.
I'm wrong! everybody read!!!-
The colour is named after the orange fruit. Before this was introduced to the English-speaking world, the colour was referred to (in Old English) as geoluhread, which translates into Modern English variously as yellow-red, yellowred, or yellored (all pronounced the same).
2006-12-12 05:23:56 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
No, it would be called a blue. And you could write poems about it. Oranges get screwed in the rhyming poetry department, since there is no rhyme for the word. If you could write poems about fruit called blues, it would be much simpler.
I brush my fingers gently
Across the lovely skin
Just below the navel
And then I dig right in
I savor the sweet tartness
My chin is streaked with goo
You've got a pretty dirty mind
I'm just eating a blue!
See? You just can't do that with oranges as they presently appear in the language.
2006-12-12 05:13:31 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Have you ever heard of the blood orange, it is red. Therefore, if an orange was coloured blue it would be something orange or blue orange.
2006-12-12 05:28:37 · answer #3 · answered by ry23 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
good question...if a person cannot see, say, yellow. does yellow really exist, or is it just a figment. if orange were coloured blue and you were raised to see orange as blue, would you call it blue? the age of question of the power of learning and perception. Is a rose by any other name still a rose????
2006-12-12 05:20:05 · answer #4 · answered by KoKo 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Probably not
If would be called a Blue Orange. LOL
2006-12-12 05:13:59 · answer #5 · answered by Angell 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Of course. However, the color blue would actually be orange. But the fruit "Orange" would still be called an "Orange".
2006-12-12 05:13:14 · answer #6 · answered by Phillip 3 · 2⤊ 2⤋
Yes, it doesn't matter the color of the fruit. Orange is what they called the fruit in the first place. If a banana was purple it would still be called a banana.
2006-12-12 05:16:48 · answer #7 · answered by Sportsfan13 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
YES you are right, pink GRAPEFRUIT is still grapefruit though pink instead of yellow,
it`s same for BLUE or BLOOD RED oranges.
(If you have a mouldy orange it is still an orange though it may be blue)
2006-12-12 06:17:26 · answer #8 · answered by dinaro5 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have always wondered if we all percieve colours the same.......
If I see blue as orange and vice versa, I would never know right?Coz I would be brought up thinking that orange was blue. It's madness if you think of it.
2006-12-12 05:13:37 · answer #9 · answered by CHARISMA 5 · 0⤊ 2⤋
arent blue oranges already in existance?....when an orange gets too old a funky blue mold grows on it....
2006-12-12 05:21:13 · answer #10 · answered by kimbersweet 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋