What colour is a red kite?
Blue!
Black.
Red.
White.
Oh, thank you Alan.
[The klaxon goes off - RED.]]
The thing is, they were named before we had a word for Orange. We just used Red for anything that was Orange as well. We had the word orange for a fruit, but didn't use it for the colour until the 16th Century.
We always think it was the colour that named the fruit, but it was the fruit that named the colour.
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