OT origin of fall
Tim Chapman (Fri, 25 Nov 2011 07:48:31 PST)
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
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