https://xkcd.com/2825

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Of course in reality this is just a US/UK thing; in British English, ‘fall’ is the brief period in between and ‘autumn’ is the main season.

  • Spzi
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    9 months ago

    The joke here is that, because Americans do not use the term “autumn” in normal communication, someone might be led to believe that it had a special unusual scientific meaning.