Hey, I have a question for you. What’s the difference between Fall and Autumn? Sometimes I write Fall and sometimes Autumn. In Swedish we only have one word for the season. We call it höst.
Fall is the American (USian) term, Autumn is the UK English term – that is the only difference between them. Those apples look splendid – apples fresh off the tree are so much better than shop bought apples.
In the U.S., we use the two words interchangeably, although fall’s probably more common than autumn. In the U.K., I’m people will sometimes remind me of how American “fall” sounds.
You are right, Fall is poetic. I like autumn too, but if Fall didn’t exist as a autumn word, the song You’ve got a friend would sound very different in the rhyme 😉
I found this on the net: “Fall and autumn are both accepted and widely used terms for the season that comes between summer and winter. Some who consider British English the only true English regard fall as an American barbarism, but this attitude is not well founded. Fall is in fact an old term for the season, originating in English in the 16th century or earlier.”
Jag älskar dessa äpplen…Ingrid Marie…min favo 🙂
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Mina favoriter också. De håller jättelänge. Vi brukar använda de sista så långt in som mars-april eller t o m maj. Väldigt goda i äppelpajer 🙂
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Åh avis blir jag Anna 🙂 jag kan bara köpa dem i affären 😉
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Vi har haft tur. Det är ett gammalt träd som stod där när vi kom till platsen. Vi försöker vara rädda om det.
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I’m not sure there is a difference. I think it’s just vernacular. Don’t take my word for that though. 😃
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Thomas at aspiblog says Fall is american and Autumn is brittish.
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Ah. I did not know that. Learn something new every day. 😃
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That’s one of the fun parts in life. To learn new things 🙂
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Indeed, it is, Anna. 😊
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Fall is the American (USian) term, Autumn is the UK English term – that is the only difference between them. Those apples look splendid – apples fresh off the tree are so much better than shop bought apples.
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Thanks! Then I learned something new today. Those apples taste really good. The worms thinks so too and they are fast to find them sometimes.
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In the U.S., we use the two words interchangeably, although fall’s probably more common than autumn. In the U.K., I’m people will sometimes remind me of how American “fall” sounds.
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Thanks! Now I have learned something new again 🙂
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I can confirm what Thomas said, my wive is british and in Germany we also have only one word: Herbst.
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Thanks! I couldn’t remember the german word for Fall. But now I know thanks to you 🙂
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Your welcome and I known the Swedish word now which is good as my eldest daugter startet to teach herself swedish and I can show off 😉
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German and Swedish have many similar words, so your daughter will recognize many words in swedish when she learn the language.
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Yes certainly she also started a blog on wordpress now I will reconend her to follow you for good practice.😊
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Wish her happy blogging. Do you have the link to her blog?
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Yes I will send it to you, she only has one post so far.
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It is a good post 🙂
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Here it is https://wereallstars.wordpress.com/2017/09/10/quick-tasty-waffles/
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Thank you. That is a nice blog!
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no difference “pling”
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I’ve learned from Thomas at aspiblog that Fall is the US english and Autumn is the UK english. “Pling”
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Love the Apple picture! Yes, fall!
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I’m glad you like it. Fall is a beautiful season 🙂
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We Brits call it Autumn, but I like ‘Fall’. It’s much more poetic, describing the descent of the leaves in this season.
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You are right, Fall is poetic. I like autumn too, but if Fall didn’t exist as a autumn word, the song You’ve got a friend would sound very different in the rhyme 😉
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I found this on the net: “Fall and autumn are both accepted and widely used terms for the season that comes between summer and winter. Some who consider British English the only true English regard fall as an American barbarism, but this attitude is not well founded. Fall is in fact an old term for the season, originating in English in the 16th century or earlier.”
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Thanks! How interesting 🙂
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John is right. As with most ‘Americanisms’ fall has been retained by Americans, whereas we English have altered them to something else
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Languages are so interesting when it comes to word history.
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True
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I love the way European languages are all related to each other
https://passajer.wordpress.com/2015/04/05/why-english-language/
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I remember that post. But I had forgotten about the graphics picture. It’s so interesting to see how our languages are related. Thanks for the link 🙂
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