• @jaybone
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    910 months ago

    I’m so old, I remember when red wasn’t invented yet.

    • ddh
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      610 months ago

      Fun fact, “orange” was first used as a colour in the sixteenth century and prior to that many orange-coloured objects were referred to as red.

      • @jaybone
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        410 months ago

        I remember hearing that and wondering if they called the fruit reds.

        • ddh
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          510 months ago

          The colour was named after the fruit actually, originally people said “orange-coloured” then just shortened that to “orange”