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Is Orange Juice named after its color or the fruit it comes from?

-- Sean (sean.new@sitel.com), July 26, 2000

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You know, that's funny, cause I asked Gabe this same question while we were driving to California. Our conclusion, the fruit is named after the color. Although, the color *could* be named after the fruit, but then, wouldn't there be another name for the basic color that we call orange?

-- Ainjel (amitybean@chickmail.com), July 28, 2000.

I don't think that the color orange would have a different name if it were named after the fruit. If you disassociate the word "orange" from its meaning, then the color could easily be named after the fruit. Just imagine that instead of the fruit being named "orange" it was named "goobidy goo", then someone else said "Hey! I've never seen a fruit that color before. What do you call that?"

-- Sean (sean.new@sitel.com), July 28, 2000.

Yeah, that makes sense, but I like to think of two people stumbling across a fruit and going , "Holy shite, what kinda fruit is THAT?" "Well," one would say to the other, "It's certainly orange, isn't it?" "Yes it sure is," says the other one, whose name is Robert, "It is a very orange fruit." "I wonder what it's called?" the other one, Alexander, says to Robert. "Well," Robert says, "It certainly is orange."

:D

-- Ainjel (amitybean@chickmail.com), July 30, 2000.


yes,yes, but the real question is, where IS Robert?

-- peanut (lorilee@caramail.com), July 31, 2000.

Well, he's probably in, like, California or Florida. Isn't that where oranges come from? (Yes, I am pretending to be ignorant).

-- Ainjel (amitybean@chickmail.com), July 31, 2000.


Oranges are preditory fruit. Steve the Crocodile hunter did a special on them

-- peanut (Lorilee@caramail.com), July 31, 2000.

You know, Sean, I thought about it, and for some reason, it seems to me that the color existed before the fruit did (I mean, fire and stuff, that has orange in it, what color was that back in the beginning when there were no oranges?). So did we call it a different name and then rename it after the orange?

-- Ainjel (amitybean@chickmail.com), August 03, 2000.

And you know what else I realized, Sean? I didn't really read your question, did I? ;)

*smacks forehead*

But really, orange juice is named after the fruit, it is the juice of the fruit. Orange drink is any old orange stuff in a bottle or glass. I was thinking that you said "orange" not "orange juice." (Cut me some slack, I have an eeevil brain who does not always see things the way they are!!)

-- Ainjel (amitybean@chickmail.com), August 03, 2000.


OK... we'll say that orange juice is named after the fruit "orange". BUT, let's go back to Robert and Alexander. What if Robert said "It is a very yellowish red fruit"? And then Alexander said "What the hell are you talking about? That fruit is reddish yellow, you moron!" Then after a loud abusive verbal argument another person had to intervine (we'll call her Susie) and said "Shut up you idiots, let's call that color orange and name the fruit the same damn thing so I don't have to listen to you guys bitch anymore!" Then, neither one would be named after the other.

Oh my gosh, I see the door of enlightenment getting wider....

-- Sean (sean.new@sitel.com), August 07, 2000.


I know for a fact that the color came first then the naming of the fruit and then the naming of the juice.

You see...I once had a friend named Robert (we called him Bobby and sometimes Booby), and Robert was the direct decendant of the Robert you all've mentioned. Anyway, while talking to Robert in my head about this he brought up that goldfish were around before oranges (the fruit), and a long time ago when the world was flat there was a big stink about the King of the world declaring that they shall be named "gold"fish b/c they were clearly orange. The common folk wanted to call them orange fish but the King (who was a color-blind mean sumabitch), wanted them to be called goldfish and had anyone who called them orangefish beheaded. So there ya go, case closed :p

-- dandiLion (gakr@mail.com), August 16, 2000.



Well, it looks like the color was named after the fruit. See:

http://www.bartleby.com/61/52/O0105200.html

-- Ven (venling@hotmail.com), December 29, 2000.


So what was the color called before the fruit came around?

-- Sean (sean.new@sitel.com), January 05, 2001.

THE WORD "ORANGE" COMES FROM THE ARABIC WORD, "NARANJ."BEFORE THE ARRIVAL OF THE FRUIT, THERE WAS NO WORD IN ANY EUROPEAN LANGUAGE TO DESCRIBE THE COLOR.THE FIRST ENGLISH APPEARANCE OF "ORANGE" WAS IN A POEM WRITTEN IN 1044. IT WASN'T UNTIL 1750 THAT THE WORD "ORANGE" WAS IN GENERAL USE AS THE DESCRIPTION FOR THE COLOR.

there that settles it

-- brandon (none@ofyourbusiness.com), May 12, 2002.


I win! I win!

-- Ainjel (wha@who.where), October 18, 2002.

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