Do you find the term "autumn" to be pretentious? I mean, what ever happened to plan old "fall"?
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The Fall is a great English punk/post-punk bad and it is also something that seems to go hand in hand with increasing commercialism. Autumn is the term the rest of the English speaking world uses, 'the Fall' just sounds overly melodramatic.
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Where I come from, it was always called 'autumn'.
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im from the uk and most people here use the term autumn. however, i think "fall" is a nice term also. it provides the imagery of leaves falling from the beautiful coloured trees. i have no problem with either word.
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No , I love the term autumn , I've always heard both words + 5
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Autumn is a grand old word - 'fall' is an unstart.
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Being a brit, I use Autumn, unless I'm trying to remember which way the clocks are changing. Spring forward and Fall back
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autumn: (Canada & Britain) season after summer and before winter: the season occurring between summer and winter. Autumn traditionally lasts from September 22 to December 21 in the northern hemisphere, and from March 21 to June 21 in the southern hemisphere. U.S. term is fall. http://encarta.msn.com/encnet/features/dictionary/DictionaryResults.aspx?refid=1861587908 chiefly Brit. the season after summer and before winter. http://www.askoxford.com/concise_oed/autumn?view=uk Autumn (also known as Fall in North American English) is one of the four temperate seasons. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autumn fall (SEASON) US noun [C or U] (UK autumn) the season after summer and before winter, when fruits and crops become ripe and the leaves fall off the trees http://dictionary.cambridge.org/define.asp?key=27805&dict=CALD
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au contraire, we Aussies do not like the word "Fall". We use "Autumn".
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"The word autumn comes from the Old French word autompne (automne in modern French), and was later normalized to the original Latin word autumnus.[2] There are rare examples of its use as early as the 14th century, but it became common only in the 16th, around the same time as fall, and the two words appear to have been used interchangeably." "During the 17th century, English immigration to the colonies in North America was at its peak and the new settlers took their language with them. While the term fall gradually obsolesced in Britain, it became the more common term in North America, where autumn is nonetheless preferred in scientific and, often, literary contexts." Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autumn#Etymology
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The word autumn came first. Although I do like the tearm "fall" becasue it describes so well what happens during the season. Things spring up in spring, and fall down in fall. (leaves mostly)
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