tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13609842.post6675878242022907816..comments2023-10-30T09:26:32.732+00:00Comments on Now's the time: tangerine, who or what? spinnachAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06972049290586377462noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13609842.post-51436682737437059992008-01-09T14:41:00.000+00:002008-01-09T14:41:00.000+00:00I enjoyed your thoughts on orange. I have always f...I enjoyed your thoughts on orange. I have always found the colour disappointing because it falls so far short of the fruit itselfwhich it attempts to rdeflect. "He hangs the orange in the trees, like golden lamps in a green night." I think that variations of yellow - lemon, ochre,umber,amber that approach the orange point in the spectrum, and the reds, rose hues, crimsons that follow it when seen side by side and allowed to coelesce without merging are lovlier to behold than the colour which we call orange.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06972049290586377462noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13609842.post-27380618654339866392008-01-09T13:22:00.000+00:002008-01-09T13:22:00.000+00:00I was thinking about the word 'orange' recently. I...I was thinking about the word 'orange' recently. It's origins have nothing to do with the royal house, Free State, Ulstermen etc, that was after the town of Orange in France where the dynasty came from originally ( though of course they have taken up the colour, such puns abound in heraldry I think). <BR/><BR/>It comes from the Dravidian/Sanskrit via Arabic via old Provencal word for the fruit and hence the colour. <BR/><BR/>But what I was really wondering was, what did people call the colour before they were familiar with the fruit? What did Chaucer call it - coral, gold, marigold, laitoun? None of them perfectly describe it as 'orange' does... perhaps it simply did not exist!<BR/><BR/>(Just one 'n' in 'spinach')Lucyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09764296105901909328noreply@blogger.com