Our native language affects what we can and can’t see, finds a new brainwave study, which shows for the first time that our native language, and the color categories we apply within it, can influence whether we consciously perceive a stimulus or not.

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The first recorded use of orange as a colour name in English was in 1512, in a will now filed with the Public Record Office.

Prior to this word being introduced to the English-speaking world, saffron already existed in the English language. Crog also referred to the saffron colour, so that orange was also referred to as ġeolurēad (yellow-red) for reddish orange, or ġeolucrog (yellow-saffron) for yellowish orange. Alternatively, orange things were sometimes described as red such as red deer, red hair, the Red Planet and robin redbreast. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orange_(colour)

I guess that's why some orange things are called red. Like red hair.