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'Carrots Used to Be Purple Before the 17th Century'
That's 200 years after oranges were introduced, even so we must've had a better name for orange than 'yellow-red'
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Sun 23 Nov 2014, 17:11,
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That's 200 years after oranges were introduced, even so we must've had a better name for orange than 'yellow-red'
doubtful
a great deal of our words were germanic and nobody has a clear idea even to this day where the word dog comes from
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Sun 23 Nov 2014, 17:15,
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