Seth Wheeler.Who decided the size of a sheet of toilet paper, and why some paper dispensers just rip the paper in a random way?
Because people might confuse them with bananas?if an orange is called an orange then why is a lemon not called a yellow
- because the colour is named after the fruit. Just as we refer to some shades of yellow colour as 'lemon-yellow', or just 'lemon'.if an orange is called an orange then why is a lemon not called a yellow
Moorish influence, isn't it? The Spanish for orange is naranja which becsme a norange then an orange.- because the colour is named after the fruit. Just as we refer to some shades of yellow colour as 'lemon-yellow'
If diamond is the hardest substance known to man, then what are they cut with?
Chuck Norris
I have noticed the difference lately.Seth Wheeler.
It's also getting smaller as time goes on.
5296116 said:This one's quite interesting. The work yellow goes back yonks in Indo-European languages, and it's got cognates in words like gold in English, gelb in German and żółty in Polish.
Orange didn't arrive until much later. I suppose they didn't ever see it until oranges started arriving, so they didn't really need it
January and March both stole one.Why does February only have 28 days?
Julius Caesar changed the calendar to give alternating months of 30 and 31 days. His month (July) had 31. To get a total of 365 days over the 12 months, there had to be a short month of 29 days - this was February.Why does February only have 28 days?
Damn, I should have thought of that one as another example when I was arguing about the fundamental arbitrariness of human categorisation of natural phenomena in the bird v dinosaurs thread...
Along the same lines, themneumonicway for remembering the colours of the rainbow: Richard of York Gave Battle In Vain stands for red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet. Are indigo and violet really colours? They both look like shades of purple to me...:
Things that have bothered me for a long time:
Why men think their penises are so important and interesting.
Why it's necessary to get all defensive and mangle English grammar, simply in order to justify an obsession with said body part and talking about it in public, possibly as some kind of substitute for waving it about.
Julius Caesar changed the calendar to give alternating months of 30 and 31 days. His month (July) had 31. To get a total of 365 days over the 12 months, there had to be a short month of 29 days - this was February.
When the Romans renamed a month after Augustus Caesar, they chose a 30 day month. Augustus wasn't having that, Julius had 31 days, and he wanted 31 as well.
So they moved a day from February and added it to August, leaving February with 28 in a normal year.