Oron-yeh

Adjective: The colour orange

I will start with quoting comedian Demetri Martin:

"I think they named oranges before they named carrots. What are these? ... Oranges. What about these? (Oh shit)... Long Pointies? ..."

Left behind is the colour orange, which, by judging from what I see around me, is probably the most important colour in the world. It surely deserves its own name. So, my solution is to import the Dutch word "oranje" into the English lexicon. Because, I mean, Holland pretty much owns the colour. Besides, calling an entire colour (and even a secondary colour at that) after something from the real world is pretty stupid. We can't degenerate the colour to the same level as the made-up "salmon".

It is weird that Holland has an entire colour that we call our own. I mean, the Dutch basically own everything that has a visible spectrum at a wavelength of about 585–620 nm, and a hue of 30° in HSV colour space. To my knowldge, there is no other country that has this phenomenom. Sure, every country has its national colours, but they have to share it with other countries (suckers). However, to my knowledge, the colours purple and pink are still available. So, if some country that noone really cares about, say, Uruguay, just decided to clothe all their athletes in baby pink, that would be a really great way to gain recognition in the world.

Of course, the spelling of oranje would have to change, otherwise people would say "oran-gee", which would be retarded. (I had friends who said they enjoyed drinking "Onan-gee-boom". I had to think really hard about it before I realised what he meant.)

There is a logical reason why oron-yeh has become the symbolic colour of Holland. It has something to do with kicking Spain's ass a few hundred years ago. [Foreshadow] In fact, Orange would probably still be on our national flag were it not for one small detail. From Wikipedia:

"The first stadtholder of the Dutch Republic was William I of Orange, who joined with Dutch nationalists and led the struggle for independence from Spain. Partly out of respect for him, the first flag adopted by the Dutch was a horizontal tricolour of orange, white, and blue. It became known as the Prinsenvlag ("Prince's flag") and was based on the livery of William of Orange. The orange dye was particularly unstable and tended to turn red after a while, so in the mid-17th century, red was made the official colour."

I think with all the other countries who have tried to copy the Dutch flag, and now that we have colourfast oron-yeh dies, we could well revert back to the original flag. Not that it is neccessary, as oron-yeh is already our own colour. In summation, a colour, so important and with such a history, should not continually be referred to by simply the name of a fruit.


Example Sentence:

"Let's paint the world oron-yeh tonight!"