
Oranges and Bucket Lists
Endless Thread
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The Origins of Orange in Nature
The word for the fruit and the color is the same in Mandarin too. And I was like, wait, I never thought about this before. How it's the same in Spanish, Chinese. Is it the same for every language? Who decided we were all going to do this? Can I share an early theory? But I don't know. My kind of chicken egg theory is that the color came first and that we call that fruit orange because that was one of the first things in nature that humans found to be there.
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