Re: CHAT: Orange

> Van:  Christophe Grandsire
> Onderwerp: Re: CHAT: Orange
>
> You mean the word "orange" didn't exist before? in how many colours did
you cut
> the rainbow then? (the 7 colours of the rainbow are extremely traditional,
in
> France at least, and imply that "orange" was already well known a
> long time ago. I thought it was a European thing)
Well, they vary between 6 and 7 in The Netherlands. Either:

violet, blauw, groen, geel, oranje, rood, indigo

or:

paars( of violet), blauw, groen, geel, oranje rood.

> > If the Dutch lights go red, orange, green, perhaps it's a national
thing?

Well, orange is definitely a national thing in The Netherlands, since it is
the name of the royal family. So it has kind of become the national color,
and that's why sport fans abroad are always dressed and painted orange.

So maybe orange is a more common term in The Netherlands then in some other
countries. In nature, there are more red and yellow things than orange
things, the obvious exception being the fruit that bears the same name as
the color.

Maarten