Yes, but that happened in Mediaeval French when une norenge got misspelt as une orenge, well before the word passed into English (and similarly into Dutch, as oranje). By comparison, Spanish and Hungarian have naranja and narancs, respectively.

B-b-b-b-but that would actually make sense, and we can't have that.

...that at least one other person on the planet appears to be troubled by this.

Or spend less time on Facebook.

Oy! Rule #1 regarding the harmonic space toads is that we don't talk about the harmonic space toads.

Are you implying that Fusty is an APK sockpuppet?

Interesting theory. Please elaborate.

For that matter, who in their right mind gives their dog pork chop bones? Even if there's no meat left on them, they're great for making soup.

Although the attempt showed character.

Which leads us to... oh dear, pretty much where we are right now. Because there's no such thing as "free for the taking"; everything costs something to someone, somewhere.

The notion that at things can be taken from nature without any cost is (IMO) the central and fatal flaw underlying unbridled capitalism. See David Harvey, The Enigma of Capital.

Only four? A lightweight, obviously.

Push the button, Frank.

Thanks for sharing... I think...

Get down and boogie and play that funky music till you die!

Yeah, in Vermont, it took all of about a year.

Vermont's state constitution forbids slavery and was adopted in 1777.

Several other rebel colonies declared themselves free even before independence was formally gained.

During the Revolutionary War, Britain transported slaves of loyalists to other British colonies. (The slaves were not emancipated.)

There was a British court decision in 1763, but it was not binding overall, seems to have been pretty widely ignored by other British courts at the time, and the matter would not be settled in the British Empire for several more decades.

You also managed to get both dates wrong. Nice going.