Back then, purple was the color of royalty. Once they figure out their mistake, they’re gonna charge twice as much. Don’t snitch.
Redordit
Maybe they didn’t have the word purple back then?
Visual_Aide_2477
Purplonion will be my name for them. Okay?
martinode
Red onion, red cabbage, red hair, etc were all named before the adoption of the words purple or orange into English. At the time red was used as a catch all for all colors adjacent to what we now call red. Red wine, blueberries, and red grapes are all more purple/indigo shaded.
Color linguistics are really fascinating! In the odyssey the sea is “wine colored” because blue hadn’t been created. The sea is dark and the sky was light so there was no need to identify a color people rarely had to interact with (minus the sky but then again you don’t REALLY need a word to describe the color of the sky it’s just “the sky”)
ZARDOZ4972
Dunno bout all y’all but I definitely had some red red onions before
R2-D2savestheday
Purple onion!
wackadoodle4201
I refuse to call them red onions
Blerkm
True story: there used to be a sandwich shop in my town called The Red Onion. They made great sandwiches. One of my coworkers misread the sign, though, and for a year or two he thought the shop’s name was The Redonion, pronounced red-OH-nee-an. He was embarrassed when he learned the correct name.
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Back then, purple was the color of royalty. Once they figure out their mistake, they’re gonna charge twice as much. Don’t snitch.
Maybe they didn’t have the word purple back then?
Purplonion will be my name for them. Okay?
Red onion, red cabbage, red hair, etc were all named before the adoption of the words purple or orange into English. At the time red was used as a catch all for all colors adjacent to what we now call red. Red wine, blueberries, and red grapes are all more purple/indigo shaded.
Color linguistics are really fascinating! In the odyssey the sea is “wine colored” because blue hadn’t been created. The sea is dark and the sky was light so there was no need to identify a color people rarely had to interact with (minus the sky but then again you don’t REALLY need a word to describe the color of the sky it’s just “the sky”)
Dunno bout all y’all but I definitely had some red red onions before
Purple onion!
I refuse to call them red onions
True story: there used to be a sandwich shop in my town called The Red Onion. They made great sandwiches. One of my coworkers misread the sign, though, and for a year or two he thought the shop’s name was The Redonion, pronounced red-OH-nee-an. He was embarrassed when he learned the correct name.
I will never be invited to do a TED Talk.