Wednesday, December 28, 2005

Deep thoughts...

Okay. So have you ever wondered whether the word for the color orange came from the fruit the orange? Or did the fruit get named from the color?

In other words, which came first, the fruit or the color?

Talk amongst yourselves. I've given you a topic. Discuss.

3 comments:

Erik said...

And why does inflammable mean flammable?

Anonymous said...

Wow Erin, maybe you should write a story about that. ;) BTW--sorry I wasn't chatty when I saw you at lunch the other day--my family was driving me nuts!! lol

Anonymous said...

You left out one very important element. The taste. Elementary my dear Watson.