Lexicon Valley, “Which Came First: Orange the Color or Orange the Fruit?”

September 23, 2014

Slate’s Lexicon Valley podcast, “Which Came First: Orange the Color or Orange the Fruit?” (Sept. 23, 2014)

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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