your first seems to fly in the face of everything that article says, as well as my 35 years of lived experience with the english language. i’m curious where you’ve been where they use “fall” in that manner?
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Lyra_Lycan@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 month ago
I mean, fall, for Americans, is a period within autumn in which the leaves of most trees fall… Not the whole season. Here’s some sauce from the world’s worst English dictionary.
juliebean@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
idiomaddict@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Your source doesn’t say that at all.
itslola@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Jeez, some alternative facts from Merriam Webster right there 😂 I’ve never heard a British English speaker (or speakers of any other UK English variant, for that matter) use ‘fall’ to denote a season.
Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 5 weeks ago
i mean it might just be very very recent, considering how global american media is it’s not surprising that younger brits would start treating the words as interchangeable.
idiomaddict@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Is “spring and fall” actually a set phrase or not? My actual not to pick was that “fall” only refers to the early part of the season, I just wanted to get a little more of the quote.
9point6@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Yeah if someone says “fall” in the UK it’s an instant outer that the person speaking is either American or has spent a very long time there
unemployedclaquer@sopuli.xyz 1 month ago
I’m from Kentucky. Second week of October is the best time of year for that. For word usage, fall, because fewer syllables. That’s not hating on Kentucky. That’s just farmer/backcountry people favoring efficiency.
We got crazy stories in Kentucky, some of them are women fighting for education