It's driving me crazy
J.E. Shields (Fri, 25 Nov 2011 07:26:54 PST)
Grey/gray? Colour/color? Something about 1776, as I recall....
For Ian's benefit, while I never looked into the etymological basis of
American usage of "Fall" to mean "Autumn," I have always assumed it was
short for "Leaf-fall." I leave it to Jim McK. to fill us in definitively
on this point.
Jim S.
At 10:21 AM 11/25/2011 -0500, you wrote:
david,
i looked it up in OUR dictionary and it gave GRAY as the spelling of that
word. sometimes children repudiate the idiosyncrasies of the parent and
are better for it.
robin carrier
wonder if our zones are the same.
beaufort, sc, usa - zone 8b
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