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If oranges are called oranges, why arenβt bananas called yellows?
@kismatt Correct. In older English they were called Noranges (think Spanish Narangas) and probably as part of The Great Vowel Shift, we moved from "a norange" to "an orange". @TheNewsOwl
@TheNewsOwl the the color was actually named after the fruit, not the other way around, I think....