because apples are not only red

The colour orange gets it's name from the orange fruit. The fruit was introduced to the English language much later than apples were and the colours that apples display were already well known. Because it wasn't so much named for the colour, as it was the morphing of languages over time.

because they tried naming it red first then i ate the name red out of all the dictionarys so they had to rename it to stop me

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