Which Came First: Orange the Color or Orange the Fruit?
Listen to Slate’s show about the etymology of a well-traveled word, featuring lexicographer Ben Zimmer.
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Listen to Lexicon Valley Episode No. 43: LinguaFile III
Mike Vuolo and Bob Garfield discuss the peripatetic history of the word orange with Wall Street Journal language columnist Ben Zimmer. For more on orange, visit Zimmer’s Word Routes column on Vocabulary.com.
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