Alt text:
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.
it's winter that is just weeks away.
xkcd #2825: Autumn and Fall
Submitted 1 year ago by randomaccount43543@lemmy.world to xkcd@lemmy.world
https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/autumn_and_fall_2x.png
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ares35@kbin.social 1 year ago
mascarasnake@lemmy.world 1 year ago
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.
randomaccount43543@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Spzi@lemm.ee 1 year ago
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.
Z3k3@lemmy.world 1 year ago
British person here.
Never heard of fall till American TV made it here
scottywh@lemmy.world 1 year ago
American here…
Everyone I’ve ever known has used Fall and Autumn interchangeably.
lugal@sopuli.xyz 1 year ago
German here. We call it Herbst
TWeaK@lemm.ee 1 year ago
thatsthejoke.jpg. The alt text is saying that the UK have fall and autumn the other way around.
EinfachUnersetzlich@lemm.ee 1 year ago
We don’t have fall at all.
randomaccount43543@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I never heard of fall until I watched an Apple keynote
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.
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?