What was called orange first

An interesting parallel is the attempted night attack by the Jacobite army on the government army before the battle of Culloden in Despite being on home ground and having local guides, the Jacobites got lost and the attack had to be abandoned. The difficulties facing a tribal chieftain in the Roman period would, if anything, have been greater. So it is very unlikely to have happened that way. What is there in a song that makes someone like it?

I love key changes, but no one else seems to — why is this? I think that musicians regard a key change as a cheap method of creating emotion in a song: the shift in key is a very functional way of seeming to make the song "soar". A song such as Oasis's All Around the World illustrates this; the chorus is simply too dull without the key change, which gives it the feel of being anthemic.

Compare this to, say, Blur's Tender to reopen mids wounds , which stays in one key and has a hook that is repeated a lot: it stays interesting because of subtle changes in lengths of chorus, guitar line and backing vocals.

Is any research going on into a depilatory to replace shaving? From there it was adopted into European languages, as with narancs in Hungarian or the Spanish naranja. But none of this actually gets us to color. Only the fruit does that. Only when the sweet oranges began to arrive in Europe and became visible on market stalls and kitchen tables did the name of the fruit provide the name for the color. And, remarkably, within a few hundred years it was possible to forget in which direction the naming went.

People could imagine that the fruit was called an orange simply because it was. Reproduced by permission. Created by Grove Atlantic and Electric Literature. Bodman Professor of English at Yale University. He has written widely on literature and the arts in general.

He is also one of the general editors of the Arden Shakespeare. Edmund Hall, the University of Oxford. Close to the Lithub Daily Thank you for subscribing! Just Because You're Paranoid Orange the fruit is "tapuach zahav" - literally "golden apple". Benjy Arnold, London In Danish, the word for the colour orange is "orange", but the word for the fruit orange is "appelsin" "appel" meaning "appeal" and "sin" meaning "his".

The Swedish word "apelsin" has its origin in Low Germanic 'appel' meaning apple and 'Sina' meaning China. In other words Swedes call the fruit orange a "Chinese apple". Piotr Kiernicki, Uppsala, Sweden A friend who worked in Cameroon told me that oranges there are green. As a result, somebody who asked for their house to be painted orange encountered perhaps predictable results.

Apparently it happens if there's not enough water, the inside ripens first and indeed, inside, they were a perfectly normal, orange orange! These are then used on the kibbutz, but not exported - even though they are perfectly fine, they wouldn't sell. Benjy Arnold, London I could add this from a Dutch Flemish perspective: the standard term is 'sinaasappel' like in Danish, Norwegian , meaning an apple from China certainly not 'his apple', as the Danish gentleman suggests.

In Flemish we have a local variant 'appelsien', containing the same two elements The use of orange as the specific description for a colour is thought to have begun in the s when the fruit began to regularly appear on English market stalls. To add complication to our understanding of colour, not all world languages have as many basic colour terms as English.

Indeed, there are only a few languages with a basic term for the mixture of red and yellow, a ccording to Dr Dominic Watt from the University of York.