There are a bunch of things that are called 'red somethings' when they are actually orange because before they had the colour orange, red and orange where the same colour.
we need that meme of the guy with the tea in his toes....help me out here guys
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· 10 years ago
If it's a real question, just Google it...
'The earliest uses of the word in English refer to the fruit, and the colour was later named after the fruit. Before the English-speaking world was exposed to the fruit, the colour was referred to as "yellow-red" (geoluread in Old English) or "red-yellow".'
'The earliest uses of the word in English refer to the fruit, and the colour was later named after the fruit. Before the English-speaking world was exposed to the fruit, the colour was referred to as "yellow-red" (geoluread in Old English) or "red-yellow".'