The world's languages can be grouped into those which call oranges oranges, those which call oranges apples and those which call oranges Portugals.
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My mind was like "but of course we call them oranges" . However, in Romanian the word for the whole color orange is also derived from portugal ("portocaliu"). So we're both in the 1st and 3rd category
Well, I meant "oranges are called oranges" with an English bias, i.e. having the same root as the English word for "orange". But it would be interesting to see which countries use the same word for the color and the fruit.
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Norwegian use "oransje" for the color, but "appelsin" for the fruit. Which is silly, since in English, the color is named after the fruit... all that context was lost in that transfer!
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