Now that you ask; yes, "orange" the color and "orange" the fruit are

[Floyd R. Turbo]

spelled the same!

[TwilightZone]

1. They should be.

Orange the color was named for orange the fruit.

[Cartoonist]

4. How do you figure?

The color orange existed before oranges were discovered.

[TwilightZone]

5. Nope.

In English, the colour orange is named after the appearance of the ripe orange fruit.[6] The word comes from the Old French: orange, from the old term for the fruit, pomme d'orange. The French word, in turn, comes from the Italian arancia,[7][8] based on Arabic نارنج (nāranj), borrowed from Persian نارنگ (nārang), derived from Sanskrit नारङ्ग (nāraṅga), which in turn derives from a Dravidian root word (compare நரந்தம்/നാരങ്ങ nārandam/nārañja which refers to bitter orange in Tamil and Malayalam).[9] The earliest known recorded use of orange as a colour name in English was in 1502, in a description of clothing purchased for Margaret Tudor.[10][11] Another early recorded use was in 1512,[12][13] in a will now filed with the Public Record Office. By the 17th century, the fruit and its colour were familiar enough that 'orange-coloured' shifted in use to 'orange' as an adjective.[14] The place name "Orange" has a separate etymology and is not related to that of the colour.[15]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orange_(colour)#Etymology

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[Cartoonist]

12. Orange existed as a color in rainbows.

What did they call it?

[soldierant]

9. That's true, but it didn't have a name.

The first oranges discovered were very bitter, and were not called oranges, but some other word which I don't remember right now but from which the country name "Portugal" was derived. When they were able to breed oranges like the ones we know today, everything changed.

[True Dough]

2. How about

Tangerine?

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[unblock]

3. Just like blue the color and bleu the cheese are spelled the same!

Dang, I thing I blew that one!

[Floyd R. Turbo]

6. Don't twist my melon man! 😎

[BOSSHOG]

7. Floyd, fact check me here

There is no word in the English language that rhymes with orange.

More fun facts:

John the toilet and John the prostitutes customer are spelled the same

[Floyd R. Turbo]

8. 🤯

[soldierant]

10. However,

"porringer" rhymes with "oranger."

[BOSSHOG]

11. That is awesome

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