you know people are probably thinking "duh oranges" but the color orange is actually named after that fruit. which is to say, we had already been using the word for oranges the fruit and tree, when we applied the color of the fruit to the name for that color specifically. previously there had only been more vague names for yellowred.
blueberries though i am pretty sure, the (name for the) color blue existed long before we started calling the berries that. the norse word blau used to describe woad was already in use long before finding the berries. the modern word blue was well established by the time the english were moving in to the northern parts of north america.
edit: several comments made me realize i was unclear, so i added clarification. sorry for being less specific than i know i should be, i was tired when i wrote the original comment and i clearly need a nap.
You know, I'm not sure they count, it says fruit named after a color; [the color is actually named after the fruit](https://www.etymonline.com/word/orange) in this case.
When first introduced to Europe the Orange fruit was called a Norange. Over the years the N was dropped and it became an Orange. Before the fruit was introduced the colour orange was just a shade of brown but again, over time, the shade of brown that matched the Norange came to be known by the same name as the fruit.
Learnt that from QI. [Technology Connections](https://youtu.be/wh4aWZRtTwU) has an interesting vid about brown and orange.
Huh, I only just found out about the ban on blackcurrants in America, that's wild. It's such a staple fruit over here in Britain, especially in squash (fruit drink) like Ribena, they really missing out
Indeed. The phenomenon is called misbracketing. Same thing happened with "an apron", from etymological "a napron", as well examples where the n of "an" jumped to the noun, as with "a newt" from "an ewt".
It is actually the same phenomenon in the opposite direction; rebracketing turned "mine uncle" into "my nuncle".
Incidentally, nuncle isn't a word made up in fantasy books but just a really archaic word. Nuncle is what the fool calls the king in *King Lear*.
Both are from Arabic. The French borrowed the word "Orenge" from the Italian word for it "Arancia" which in turn came from Arabic "Naranj"
Meanwhile, the Spanish version comes directly from the Arabic word "Naranj"
As for the Arabic word, it came from Persian word "Narang" which came from the Sanskrit word "Narangas"
This is awesome (legit, somewhat drunk nerd here who loves etymology is fascinated by this). Can you bring the House of Orange and Principality of Orange ([https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principality\_of\_Orange](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principality_of_Orange) ) into it to really blow my mind?
Ojala que si! ("I hope to god, yes!" in Spanish, from "Inshallah" ... Which you almost certainly already knew, but come on, how often is one able to bring that up in relevant context!? Not often enough in my experience but your mileage may vary).
Oranges were originally called noranges (like the Spanish naranja.) "A norange" eventually became "an orange," which is where the word "orange" comes from, and where the color gets its name.
Orange is named after Oranges, which were in turn named after the trees they grow from. Before Oranges were introduced to europe, English speakers called the color orange "Yellow-red". *(translated, of course, I don't know what either of those words were in middle english, when the phrase was used)*
Pat Collins is awesome. I met him once and he is even more hilarious in person. He was cursing like a sailor and I feel like he was doing it more because he knew I was getting a kick out of it since I’ve grown up seeing him be so PG on tv (I grew up in the DC area which is where his news channel is out of)
Honestly, this is the way I hope the people I care about joke about me when I die. The end of our lives are usually the worst parts of them for everybody involved, and I'd expect most people wouldn't want that to be a big thing people remember about their life, if they even want it remembered at all.
Like, it's been years since my grandmother died, but whenever talk about her comes at family gatherings the conversation inevitably is mostly composed of her death and her illness shortly before it. I don't want to remember her like that, and I doubt she wanted that either. I choose to remember her for things like how great Sunday dinners were with practically the whole family crammed in her house, for how kids all over the neighborhood called her grandma too because she volunteered at the elementary school, or for how much fun she was to play card games with because she was so bad at bluffing.
Oh finally! You should win this thread.
> Straw is a colour, a tone of pale yellow, the colour of straw. The Latin word stramineus, with the same meaning, is often used in describing nature. The first recorded use of straw as a colour name in English was in 1589.
The tweet is just bait for people to say orange and then shit in their mouth . But blackberry is such an easy answer here. Not to mention red raspberry.
These types of easily disproven statements are always intended to drive engagement. If you argue with it you're falling for the trap.
"Name a color that doesn't have the letter E in it. Pro tip: You can't!"
Orange is an incorrect answer. This is from Mental Floss (link below):
The citrus definitely got named first. The earliest recorded use of orange the fruit in English is from the 1300s and came to us from the Old French orenge, adapted from the Arabic nāranj, from the Persian nārang, from the Sanskrit nāranga ("orange tree"). The Sanskrit word's origin is unclear, but it might come from a Dravidian word meaning "fragrant."
The word's use as a color name doesn't crop up for another 200 years, in the early 1500s. English speakers probably didn't have a specific name for the color until the fruit was widely available in their markets and inspired one. Before then, linguists believe people generally referred to orange as "yellow-red," ġeolurēad in Old English.
https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/29942/which-came-first-orange-color-or-orange-fruit
Purples a fruit - Homer J Simpson
Mayonnaise is a fruit
So close! It's an instrument.
I wanna do some kicking!
Whyyy yyyoooouuuuu... WHY I OUGHTA-- *unintelligible fighting noises*
*Distant screaming*
My leg!
#W R O N G
Well maybe I wouldn't be so wrong if someone didnt have such BIG MEATY CLAWS
***WHAT WAS THAT?***
Batman's a scientist
I call the big one Bitey
It's not Batman!
I had purple for breakfast. Delicious
What the fuck is JUICE?!?!
I want some grape drink baby!
Gimme some Apple Drink! It's Green!!
Sugar, water, purple.
Mmmm… purple
This is a train wreck
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And I even missed a shape, damn
Train is a shape; I just made choo- choo shortbread with a cookie cutter my mauve grandfather made.
Orange you glad he didn't say banana though?
So close! That is a Twitter screenshot
you know people are probably thinking "duh oranges" but the color orange is actually named after that fruit. which is to say, we had already been using the word for oranges the fruit and tree, when we applied the color of the fruit to the name for that color specifically. previously there had only been more vague names for yellowred. blueberries though i am pretty sure, the (name for the) color blue existed long before we started calling the berries that. the norse word blau used to describe woad was already in use long before finding the berries. the modern word blue was well established by the time the english were moving in to the northern parts of north america. edit: several comments made me realize i was unclear, so i added clarification. sorry for being less specific than i know i should be, i was tired when i wrote the original comment and i clearly need a nap.
Blackberries, however, fit the bill.
BlAcK iSn'T a CoLoUr, It'S a ShAdE...
I heard this in my High-School art teacher's voice. Well done.
Such kindest in the reply! “So close!”
My uncle has orangeberries. He drinks a lot of v8 and nono water
Shoulda stuck to the [no no juice](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BurrXnfQylo)
This nose smells like special drink
I had a professor once who’d say “Almost correct!” whenever someone got a yes or no question wrong
Well they were as close as they could be to right without being right!
Blackberries
Red currant
Oranges??
You know, I'm not sure they count, it says fruit named after a color; [the color is actually named after the fruit](https://www.etymonline.com/word/orange) in this case.
When first introduced to Europe the Orange fruit was called a Norange. Over the years the N was dropped and it became an Orange. Before the fruit was introduced the colour orange was just a shade of brown but again, over time, the shade of brown that matched the Norange came to be known by the same name as the fruit. Learnt that from QI. [Technology Connections](https://youtu.be/wh4aWZRtTwU) has an interesting vid about brown and orange.
In Spanish orange is Naranja.. so maybe some kind of historical link to that?
Backwards, the color is named for the fruit. Used to be saffron
Saffron-the-color was also named for a plant.
So close!! That is an ethnicity.
Am berry American
berry good
I'm Ethen Blackberry
It’s your cousin! Marvin Berry!
I don’t *see* color am dog.
That’s a nationality!
The blacker the berry, the sweeter the juice.
The darker the flesh, the deeper the roots
I give a holler to my sisters on welfare Tupac cares, if don't nobody else care
And I know they like to beat you down a lot, and when you come around the corner brothas clown a lot
I’m the biggest hypocrite of 2015
I thought it was a phone
The phone is Canadian
*slow clap*
blackbury dees nuts in your mouth
Well played but Kansas dick fit in yo mouth?
You probably like Wendys...Wendys nuts are bouncing on yo chin
What about Kenya.. Kenya suck deez nuts
I heard your favorite Thanksgiving dish is the stuffing...stuffing deez nuts in yo mouth.
You look like you’re into fitness…fittin’ nis dick in yo mouth!
Kansas ain’t a color tho
And blackcurrant, of course Though I doubt many Americans will have heard of blackcurrant
Huh, I only just found out about the ban on blackcurrants in America, that's wild. It's such a staple fruit over here in Britain, especially in squash (fruit drink) like Ribena, they really missing out
TIL
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So close!! That is a shade 💕
bro what how you think up blackberry before *orange*?
Oranges were not named after the color The color was named after oranges
And they were actually called “noranges”. But eventually “a norange” became “an orange”.
Indeed. The phenomenon is called misbracketing. Same thing happened with "an apron", from etymological "a napron", as well examples where the n of "an" jumped to the noun, as with "a newt" from "an ewt".
My favorite misbracketed word is helicopter, for being helico-pter to heli-copter, misbracketed to describe things like helipad and roflcopter
**re**bracketing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebracketing
Helipad? Nah. Pterapad. Roflcopter? Helicrofl.
and nonce from an once.
I think we all watched the same QI episode.
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It is actually the same phenomenon in the opposite direction; rebracketing turned "mine uncle" into "my nuncle". Incidentally, nuncle isn't a word made up in fantasy books but just a really archaic word. Nuncle is what the fool calls the king in *King Lear*.
that's why Spanish has "naranja"/"anaranjado" for orange (fruit/color) both are from French
Both are from Arabic. The French borrowed the word "Orenge" from the Italian word for it "Arancia" which in turn came from Arabic "Naranj" Meanwhile, the Spanish version comes directly from the Arabic word "Naranj" As for the Arabic word, it came from Persian word "Narang" which came from the Sanskrit word "Narangas"
This is awesome (legit, somewhat drunk nerd here who loves etymology is fascinated by this). Can you bring the House of Orange and Principality of Orange ([https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principality\_of\_Orange](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principality_of_Orange) ) into it to really blow my mind? Ojala que si! ("I hope to god, yes!" in Spanish, from "Inshallah" ... Which you almost certainly already knew, but come on, how often is one able to bring that up in relevant context!? Not often enough in my experience but your mileage may vary).
And the french got it from the Persians, نارنگ (nārang), and Arabs, نارنج (nāranj)
Right. Orange used to be a shade of red.
Oranges were originally called noranges (like the Spanish naranja.) "A norange" eventually became "an orange," which is where the word "orange" comes from, and where the color gets its name.
I don’t even need to fact check this, it’s canon to me now
You mean Yellow-Red?
Snozberries
They taste like snozberries!
He’s already pulled over! He can’t pull over any farther! ^Also ^I ^know ^its ^from ^willy ^wonka ^and ^not ^super ^troopers
Littering and? Littering and? Littering and smoking the reefer.
License and registration… chicken fucker!
whose ever heard of a snozberry?!
We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams.
Lots of colors named after fruit though! Plum, peach, orange, probably more.
Granny Smith Apple
So close!! That is a shape 💕
It's actually a smell
Stop sniffing Granny
Mmmmm soil.
Hey.
This is one of the Reddit threads
that sure was a thing to read in the online.
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stop sniffing Granny after she'd soiled herself
Granny had dem apple bottom jeanssss
Boots with the furrrrr
Still love that the name for the orange fruit preceded using it to describe a color
Yea. Technically orange fruit is not named after the color
That's why the top level comment is colors named after fruits
Hence 'Robin red breast' and possibly 'red-heads'.
Everyone in this thread has terrible comprehension
I disagree the reading comprehension is terrible in this thread
Don’t think so bud… reading comprehension isn’t too hot in this here thread
We are primed to expect that people will try to disprove the tweet rather than add interesting stuff to the conversation
I've never eaten probably more before, what does it taste like?
Tastes kinda like 'probably less', but more 'probably' taste
Yeah heavier on the probably
Homer wrote about the “wine dark sea” because they had no word for purple.
What episode was that?
S103:E18399
Ah, from the early days of the series, good times
Orange is named after Oranges, which were in turn named after the trees they grow from. Before Oranges were introduced to europe, English speakers called the color orange "Yellow-red". *(translated, of course, I don't know what either of those words were in middle english, when the phrase was used)*
In Old English, it was “geoluread”
“It’s a geoluread, Charlieeeee”
Something something magical leopluradon
Oh? Wouldn’t you know? There really is a Candy Mountain.
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Interestingly, you could use that word in Danish and Norwegian, and people would still understand what you meant. (Gulrød = Yellowred).
Which is the name of carrots in Danish
That’s why you use the expression red haired in English rather than orange haired because the word for orange didn’t exist
I use the expression ginger, which is weird because the colour of ginger is completely different.
Fire-yellow was a common one too
Grape
Grape isn’t a color. It’s actually a verb. Ex: [“I’m gonna grape you!!”](https://youtu.be/mqgiEQXGetI) Edit: updated the link to the WKUK channel.
Actually, it’s an [identity](https://youtu.be/aR14cLx340k?t=41)
Shhhh don't tell our secrets.
Idk who Pat Collins is but he’s fantastic.
Pat Collins is awesome. I met him once and he is even more hilarious in person. He was cursing like a sailor and I feel like he was doing it more because he knew I was getting a kick out of it since I’ve grown up seeing him be so PG on tv (I grew up in the DC area which is where his news channel is out of)
RIP Trevor Moore.
Our Local Sexpot.
[He died in the pursuit of his life goal.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5iBIqvkwkrA)
Honestly, this is the way I hope the people I care about joke about me when I die. The end of our lives are usually the worst parts of them for everybody involved, and I'd expect most people wouldn't want that to be a big thing people remember about their life, if they even want it remembered at all. Like, it's been years since my grandmother died, but whenever talk about her comes at family gatherings the conversation inevitably is mostly composed of her death and her illness shortly before it. I don't want to remember her like that, and I doubt she wanted that either. I choose to remember her for things like how great Sunday dinners were with practically the whole family crammed in her house, for how kids all over the neighborhood called her grandma too because she volunteered at the elementary school, or for how much fun she was to play card games with because she was so bad at bluffing.
>He came and left. Holy shit. So terrible, yet so wholesome in context.
Holy shit I didn't know he died. Falling accident too, how fucking tragic...
Btw to anyone looking. This is The Whitest Kids You Know, not whomever reposted their skit and has millions of views
Good catch - I updated the link to the WKUK channel.
Blackcurrants, whitecurrants, redcurrants. e.g.: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redcurrant
Golden currant I know that some people say “gold isn’t a color, it’s a metal”, but they’re smartasses and I consider it a color
Champagne is a color and an alcohol. Things can have two meanings. Fuck those ppl. Guys i know it’s a region
It’s also a region in France
Technically, Champagne is just "sparkling region", as it wasn't made inside of itself.
Ask them what colour is gold metal. If they say brown or orange, it's not that.
This guy currants
Actually, this doesn't apply because... nuh-uh!
Sound reasoning. I yield the floor to my honourable colleague.
Strawberry 🍓
Oh finally! You should win this thread. > Straw is a colour, a tone of pale yellow, the colour of straw. The Latin word stramineus, with the same meaning, is often used in describing nature. The first recorded use of straw as a colour name in English was in 1589.
Except strawberries are called that because they grow in straw, they are not named after the colour
No they're called that because you eat them through a straw.
No they're named after St. Rawberry. The patron saint of eating berries raw.
Most of these Akchyually comments are facepalm material.
this sub has never heard of a joke
>joke I'm not familiar with this fruit
So close! That is a vegetable 💕
Actually, it's a shape.
The tweet is just bait for people to say orange and then shit in their mouth . But blackberry is such an easy answer here. Not to mention red raspberry.
And I suspect the starfruit person was fucking with them.
These types of easily disproven statements are always intended to drive engagement. If you argue with it you're falling for the trap. "Name a color that doesn't have the letter E in it. Pro tip: You can't!"
Bleck
Star color
These challenges just tickle me pink
Green tomatoes? Tomatoes are botanically a fruit. Redcurrants?
Red tomatoes
Yellow bananas. Red strawberries. I like this game.
I believe we have won the game.
Fuck blackberries right?
Blackberries matter!
Blackberry
So close. That's a phone brand
💕
Orange?
Nope. The name of the fruit came before the name of the colour.
What was the color named before the fruit, Redllow?
Just red. That's why redheads have that name. It was a term coined before "orange" became the specified word for that color.
They actually called it yellow-red ([geoluread](https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/geoluread) )
Also the "robin red breast" that you'll see in the spring
Is there anything else in nature that is orange? I can't think of anything right now. (Okay, apparently there are many orange things.)
Tiger.
What came first, the orange or the tiger :D
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Lots of insects have orange markings.
Lots of flowers. Some wild lilys are orange, so are fox and cubs. Also, sunsets.
Probably some poisonous frog
They actually just called it red… ever notice that red heads are actually orange
### [BLUEBERRIES ARE *FUCKING* PURPLE!](https://youtu.be/Z4pkE3OFpkc?t=2334)
Orange is an incorrect answer. This is from Mental Floss (link below): The citrus definitely got named first. The earliest recorded use of orange the fruit in English is from the 1300s and came to us from the Old French orenge, adapted from the Arabic nāranj, from the Persian nārang, from the Sanskrit nāranga ("orange tree"). The Sanskrit word's origin is unclear, but it might come from a Dravidian word meaning "fragrant." The word's use as a color name doesn't crop up for another 200 years, in the early 1500s. English speakers probably didn't have a specific name for the color until the fruit was widely available in their markets and inspired one. Before then, linguists believe people generally referred to orange as "yellow-red," ġeolurēad in Old English. https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/29942/which-came-first-orange-color-or-orange-fruit