Talk:Orange (word)

message: What about doorhinge?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.61.87.207 (talk) 04:49, 24 January 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Do "zero range" or "low range" rhyme with orange? (non-native speaker here).  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2.12.200.97 (talk) 18:20, 18 June 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: Suggested rhymes

message: 60 Minutes.
Eminem can rhyme orange.
Suggest this could be added to the article somehow?
— Cirt (talk) 15:51, 3 November 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: Eminem is currently cited in the section 'Rhyme'. Cnilep (talk) 02:03, 4 November 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Rhymetime with Eminem 

message: See current discussion at Wikipedia talk:Article titles#Words as words. I propose to keep the discussion there, not here. --Francis Schonken (talk) 08:59, 1 March 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Italicisation of article title 

message: I removed the mention of Margaret Tudor, since the OED doesn't include the same attestation that St. Clair notes and the OED footnote was left on the sentence. That said, St. Clair's 1502 'slevys of orenge color' does pre-date the OED's 1557 list of cloth colours in British statutes. On the third hand, though, an overly specific citation may eventually be disproven if someone comes along with e.g. a 1501 mention. If you want to re-add the 1502 attestation, maybe a little more hedging would be in order, as well as not appearing to attribute the date to OED? (Also, I removed the WorldCat URL, since oclc= already links to WorldCat.) Cnilep (talk) 02:47, 7 October 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: I copied over what was written in orange (colour) instead. It separates the two possible first instances. ♠PMC♠ (talk) 02:51, 7 October 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Margaret Tudor 

message: I'm mentioning it here because I expect kneejerk reversion from the kind of misguided pedant who would rather tear "glacier" out of the dictionary than admit there is a word that violates "i before e". But see the cited Wiktionary entry at , or simply find the thousands of legitimate uses in Google. Equinox ◑ 05:50, 19 November 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: That's not a bad example, but there are a number of problems here. First, Wiktionary or other user-generated content are not usually accepted as references for Wikipedia. Second, any potentially controversial content (and your reference to "knee-jerk reversion" suggests that you think this is potentially controversial) needs a citation. Third, there are already other less-common words (The Blorenge, Goringe) mentioned in the section, so this slang word hardly seems so vital to the section as to ignore all rules. I presume that some non-user-generated secondary sources, such as slang dictionaries, may exist. Let's find some and cite them. Cnilep (talk) 06:57, 19 November 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: Found one! It's in dictionary.com, which I believe is published by Random House. Cnilep (talk) 07:12, 19 November 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: The dictionary.com article suggests blorange was a fashion portmanteau neologism, popular in 2017, but unclear as to whether it was supposed to be "blond-orange" or "blood-red-orange" --2A00:23C6:148A:9B01:B4BA:46:D644:9CF0 (talk) 11:28, 6 July 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Added "blorange" 

message: Orange is one of a few words that lost its leading n as it moved between languages (cf. naranja in Spanish which came from Arabic, in turn from other languages tracing back to India).  Might this be noted?  --2A00:23C6:148A:9B01:B4BA:46:D644:9CF0 (talk) 11:28, 6 July 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Etymology with lost leading n