Why Is An Orange Called An Orange, Yet A Lemon Is Not Called A Yellow?

Can someone please explain this madness to me? How come the Orange gets to be named after the colour of it's skin yet Lemons and Limes are not? Instead we have to call them something completly unrelated. Wouldn't it be easier on the english language if we had less words to learn? In protest to such an absurb language I intend to only call lemons and limes by their rightfull names from now on. So for any of you who might work at a Fruit And Vegtable stand, the next time your confronted by a customer that wants to buy one Yellow and two greens it's just me.

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When it came down to oranges the creative juices just ran out.

 

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It's very complex.

First it involves the function of Fruiticular theory commonly stated as P = MC^-2

It has to do with the fact that the hybird of limes and lemons is euivalent to the orange's pulminary system's valve which leads to the distinct discolouration of the left center of the seed...

 

Why are you concerned? Ewoks dont care about the NAMES of the food, just the fact that it IS food!

 

What are you going to call it?

I dunno.

What about a Pinchy?

Pinchy? What the hell is that?

I don't know. What's a lemon?

DAMMIT YOU ALWAYS DO THIS WHEN IT COMES DOWN TO NAMING THINGS! You go off on some weird tangent that doesn't relate to anything! At least a lemon sounds like it could be yellow!

SON OF A CENSORED! WHEN DID I EVER NAME SOMETHING THAT DOESN'T SOUND LIKE IT COULD BE THE THING IT'S CALLED?

Look I don't want to get into another argument. Name the damn thing whatever you want.

Fine it's an orange.

What don't you just go ahead call those striped black and white horses Stripeys then?

No I've got another name for them, something you'll never guess.

 

The peculiar thing is that a lemon actually tastes lemon-flavoured - NOT yellow-flavoured. Hence the confusion.

That's another one for the "so-called" experts!

 

What would a banana be called if a lemon was yellow? It's not fair to call a lemon yellow if you can't call a banana yellow. But then this would lead to all kinds of confusion as people who asked for yellow in their water or tea would get a big fat banana put in there.

No, as oranges are the major orange fruit, and have no real competition in the orange category, they have exclusive rights to the orange monniker.

Now why an eggplant isn't called a purple, I can't help you.

 

and while we're at it...why isn't a spork called a foon???

 

Ok I think I know the answer The official color of the Dutch royal family is orange...and that made the orange the official royal fruit cause of it's color (don't ask) and probable thats why the English named the orange after the color...

 

Obi-Zahn Kenobi you know full well that Fruitology has never been an exact science. How do you account for Fruit O Dela'Loomis's theory of Citric Pigmentation which clearly states that the orange's pulminary system's valve is directly related to said fruits citric level, which cause a flucuation in said fruits seed and subsequentily it's outer pigment. Clearly this should have some bearing on a fruits name.

LOL, LMM.

B'omarr we could call a Bannana "Yellow 2".

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Rather than changing the names of lemons and limes and bananas and everything else that has color, why not just change the name of an orange? That way, we can even reduce the number of words that don't rhyme with other words. Huzzah!

Amazing.

 

We could create numerical and alphabetical combinations for all sorts of fruit-based foodstuffs. For instance, the simple lemon would be purely 'yellow'. A lemon sorbet, for instance, would be 'yellow 52' and lemon fruit squash would be 'yellow 19', lemonade would simply be 'yellow 4'.

Seriously, I think that would bring an end to all this so-called "confusion"...

 

And if we change the name of lemons, we get into the whole mess of what to call poorly built cars. Will we continue to call those lemons, or would we call them yellows? And why is the color naming limited to just fruit? Wouldn't a yellow car also be called a yellow? So if you bought a lemon of a yellow car, you would say "I bought a yellow yellow." And then the kids would start calling it "yellow squared."

Hmm, your scheme seems to be failing, Ewok.

Amazing.

 

You can't expect too much of a Rabid_Balding_Ewok...

 

Oranges weren't discovered until much later after lemons. I think lemons were found in the 3rd century AD. Oranges were found a lot later, explaining the difference in naming scheme. Had lemons and oranges been discovered together, lemons would undoubtedly be called yellows.

 

The flaw to RBE's idea is that "LEMON" is indeed a colour.

 

ah, the solution of this tremendous debate has been found.

 

"The flaw to RBE's idea is that "LEMON" is indeed a colour."

Yes, but it's a shade of YELLOW!

Who sent you? You work for Them, don't you? You're spying on Rabid_Balding_Ewok!

 

Who sent you? You work for Them, don't you? You're spying on Rabid_Balding_Ewok!


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Bomarr, I think grapes hold the monopoly on "Purple", not eggplants!

 

Is that a mod with spoilers outside PSA? Tsk tsk, JP.

 

Lemon is a colour? No doubt this is some communist plot to overthrow democracy. I'm watching you JP your names in my little black book now.

There is one small problem with renaming all fruits to colours asides from having to rename faulty cars. What if your colour blind? Do you call an orange grey? Would this be a deterrent to eating certain fruits?

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"What if your colour blind? Do you call an orange grey? Would this be a deterrent to eating certain fruits?"

I'll field that one, seeing as how I do suffer from said affliction. I do not see oranges as grey. Nor do I see in black and white, as that is quite rare. Either way, though, I don't see the color blindness thing playing a huge factor in fruit, as you'll begin to associate the names with the flavors. However, naming everything else after colors would create huge problems, as I would walk around calling grass orange, and people would think I'm crazy.

Amazing.

 

Is that a mod with spoilers outside PSA?

Only for the unspoiled James Bond fans in the house.