Comment on xkcd #2825: Autumn and Fall

Z3k3@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• scottywh@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  American here…

  Everyone I’ve ever known has used Fall and Autumn interchangeably.

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  • lugal@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    German here. We call it Herbst

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• TWeaK@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  thatsthejoke.jpg. The alt text is saying that the UK have fall and autumn the other way around.

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  • EinfachUnersetzlich@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    We don’t have fall at all.

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    • TWeaK@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I know (I’m British) and the US doesn’t have Autumn. They are the opposite to each other.

      In the comic, the US has both, with Autumn in the brief period before Summer ends and Fall starts. The alt text is saying the UK has the two the other way around.

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• randomaccount43543@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I never heard of fall until I watched an Apple keynote

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• bluGill@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  American, 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 in in print enough to know elsewhere in the English speaking world it is used.

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• SirQuackTheDuck@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Mainland European here, I’ve never heard of fall, but I did hear someone descend a stairwell in an unfamiliar manner. Does that count?

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