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xkcd #2825: Autumn and Fall (imgs.xkcd.com)

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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.

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[–] randomaccount43543@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

https://explainxkcd.com/2825

[–] Spzi@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year 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.