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If orange is your favourite colour, you are warm, optimistic, extroverted and often flamboyant. Forever the optimist, you fully expect something wonderful is about to happen. You've perfected being present, living in the moment, and focusing on what and who is in front of you. Is orange a favourite colour of yours?

What came first, orange the colour or orange the fruit? The earliest recorded use of orange the fruit in English is from the 1300s and came to us from the Old French orenge, adapted from the Arabic nāranj, from the Persian nārang, from the Sanskrit nāranga ("orange tree"). The Sanskrit word's origin is unclear, but it might come from a Dravidian word meaning "fragrant." The word's use as a colour name doesn't crop up for another 200 years, in the early 1500s. The earliest uses of the word in English refer to the fruit, and the colour was later named after the fruit. Before the English-speaking world was exposed to the fruit, the colour was referred to as "yellow-red" or "red-yellow". Were you aware of this?

How many of these other fun facts about orange did you know?

When you hear the word orange, you probably think of pumpkins, carrots, tigers, and you-know-who... Maybe you also think of these things that all have the word "orange' in them. Which of these "orange" things are you familiar with?