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If an orange is orange, why isn’t a lime called a green or a lemon called a yellow?​

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They named the color after the fruit, before this it was called yellow-red or red-yellow, the other colors already had names so they didn’t get named after a fruit with the corresponding color
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That's a good question but like if you really think about it there's lime-green.

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