xkcd #2825: Autumn and Fall
xkcd #2825: Autumn and Fall
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Of course in reality this is just a US/UK thing; in British English, 'fall' is the brief period in between and 'autumn' is the main season.
British person here.
Never heard of fall till American TV made it here
American here...
Everyone I've ever known has used Fall and Autumn interchangeably.
German here. We call it Herbst
I never heard of fall until I watched an Apple keynote
American here. I went to first grade with a girl named Autumn. Other than her I've never heard anyone use the word, though I've seen it in print enough to know elsewhere in the English speaking world it is used.
Mainland European here, I've never heard of fall, but I did hear someone descend a stairwell in an unfamiliar manner. Does that count?
it's winter that is just weeks away.
The joke here is that, because Americans do not use the term "autumn" in normal communication, someone might be led to believe that it had a special unusual scientific meaning.
Or as we call it in the Southern U.S., "Summer Lite," where the daily high temps are finally at or below 90°F a good bit of the time. We keep getting teasers of autumn, but it'll be a week or two depending on where you live. The heat index in Houston looks to be 105°F today, so autumn is still a little ways off. Ouch.