Fall for autumn began in England and was carried over by English settlers. Since then it's very common in the US but apparently abandoned in England. Supposedly short for Fall of the year or Fall of leaves... or something like that. We kept it cause it's easier to spell ;) Tim Chapman On Nov 25, 2011, at 9:26 AM, "J.E. Shields" <jshields@indy.net> wrote: > 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 >> ....... > > ************************************************* > Jim Shields USDA Zone 5 > P.O. Box 92 WWW: http://www.shieldsgardens.com/ > Westfield, Indiana 46074, USA > Lat. 40° 02.8' N, Long. 086° 06.6' W > > _______________________________________________ > pbs mailing list > pbs@lists.ibiblio.org > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/ _______________________________________________ pbs mailing list pbs@lists.ibiblio.org http://pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/