AJ on Instagram: "The fruit came first. The colour came second. 🍊🧠 Before the word “orange” described a colour, it described a fruit — and that fruit didn’t even come from Europe. It started in Sanskrit as nāraṅga, meaning “fragrant.” That became nāranj in Persian, then naranja in Spanish. When it reached English, the “n” got dropped — a linguistic glitch called rebracketing. “A naranja” became “an orange.” The fruit was so vivid, people started using its name to describe the colour. Before th