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[-] Denjin@lemmings.world 10 points 1 week 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.

[-] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

And why orange haired people still have red hair.

[-] shalafi@lemmy.world 0 points 1 week 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 1 points 1 week 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.

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