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All het up about fruit
Why do both English and French have the same word for the fruit and the color orange? Why don't we call that color "carrot", something orange that probably would have been more familiar to the French and English back when colors were being named?
Maybe the fruit was named after the color, which I think would be super-dumb. We don't call lemons "yellows", now do we? And why wouldn't you be able to come up with a better name? Even "orangefruit" would be better.
srah - Friday, 4 April 2003 - 7:59 AM
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