Question: If we call oranges, oranges then why don't we call bananas yellows?
Asked by rhodesa09 to Adam, Leila on 23 Mar 2012.
Keywords: banana, food, fruit, orange
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I’d call a lemon Bright Yellow and an apple depends on what colour it is. Lets just say it’s greeny red!
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They should definitely be called yellows. That’s a much better name.
It would make naming apples really hard though! Oh, and what would you call lemons!?
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Which came first, the fruit or the colour? Actually, it was the fruit – before oranges were discovered and named, the colour orange was called a range of things like ‘fawn’ or ‘buff’ or ‘yellow-red’.
So really, the colour yellow should be called ‘banana’!
The meaning of the word orange is actually ‘fragrant’
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