fruit and colour names

[mollykins]

Out of the standard primary and secondary colours, it is only orange that is a fruit aswell?

For example you get apple which is a shade of green but green (nor purple, blue, yellow or red) are actually fruits are they? Just checking for a quiz, it's a simple question but there might be some exotic rare fruit called a blue etc etc . . .

[kawakiri]

I'll have a kilo of magentas if you find any.

[mollykins]

They wouldn't count, even if pink was included, pink isn't a fruit and pink is the standard colour, magenta is a shade of pink.

[kawakiri]

Magenta is a secondary colour as far as I'm concerned along with cyan and yellow.

[jno]

pink's a flower, green's a lawn and blues is music.

[kawakiri]

RGB don't you see!?

[mollykins]

I'm hopefullt going to have a question along the lines of; what is special about the word orange? many people will say 'oh it doesn't rhyme with anything' but it does and the answer will be that it is the only standard primary or secondary colour that is the full name of a fruit aswell, but i'll also accept that it's one of the only english colours that's spelt the same way in french . . .

[coccinelle]

There again there are blackcurrants, blackberries, redcurrants, white currants, blue berries...

[mollykins]

jno, we're talking about fruit here . . .

[mollykins]

only standard colour that's the FULL name of a fruit aswell.

[coccinelle]

Now seen FULL name of a fruit, sorry

[jno]

it's also an example of juncture loss

[mollykins]

That's ok . . . .careful wording and hopefully i'll be ok with this as a question.

[jno]

yes, I know you're talking about fruit, that's why I'm point out that pink, green and blues are not fruit, they're something else.

Cerise is the same word as cherry.

[coccinelle]

lilac is french too.

[jno]

plum is a colour.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_colors#P

[mollykins]

aahhhh ok.

There are probably a few more, but I said standard, as in red (rouge) yellow (jaune) blue (bleu) purple (?) orange (orange) and green (vert) of which, like I said, only orange is the same.

[mollykins]

STANDARD colours, red, yellow, blue, orange, purple, green, not their shades.

[boxtops]

You could make your question a bit more straightforward by saying "what's so special about the name of an orange?" answer - the only fruit which is known by its colour. The answer you are giving at the moment is going to make people lose the will to live.

BTW - don't upset everyone else, Orange is not an "English colour", it's the same colour in the whole of the English-speaking work. - it's "an adjective in the English language". If any country lays claim to orange as a national colour, it's the Dutch!

[kawakiri]

I think your safe with orange as the only fruit.

[coccinelle]

You didn't say standard you said standard primary and secondary colours. If orange is allowed so is plum!