autumn vs. fall

[Wilson Gray]

On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 3:27 PM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com> wrote:

> In a vacuum, "autumn" is better. Its associations are far more concentrated
> than those of "fall."
>

The ancient Slavs, unencumbered by the yoke of the Roman Empire, went
with _listopad_, literally "leaf-fall." Well, it's actually only the
name of a month - October or November, according to language - and not
the name of the season, nowadays.

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-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"––a strange complaint to
come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
–Mark Twain

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