Re: CHAT: Orange
| From: | wayne chevrier <wachevrier@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, June 5, 2002, 16:46 |
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Christophe Grandsire nevesht:
>
>Strange... In France we have a town named Orange (yes, it is the one which
>gave
>its name to the Royal family of the Netherlands), and its official colour
>is
>orange since the town exists. And it's more than five centuries old...
>
Orange, the colour, comes from orange, the fruit, which was 'norange' from
Arabic originally (cf. naranja). When it became a recognized colour it was
linked, for obvious reasons, with the town of Orange, but the names are the
same only by coincidence.
-Wayne Chevrier
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