• Denjin@lemmings.world
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    1 day ago

    Yes indeed. Before we had “orange”, and also “purple” everything was just “red” which is why we have red onions and red cabbage that are anything but red and several species of bird are called red despite being clearly orange coloured.

      • shalafi@lemmy.world
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        18 hours ago

        Sometimes I learn something that makes me think, how the hell had I not figured that out sometime in the past half-century.

        • AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world
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          12 hours ago

          For some reason, french has a specific term for orange/red hair that’s quite old. So we don’t have red haired people. I don’t know if other languages share this.