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I just received an e-mail telling me not to miss the fall discounts.
While it's true that the end of summer is merely about two months away... fall is not a season in my country.
What I'm trying to think of, though, is: is "fall" a season in ANY country in the southern hemisphere? I can't think of a single one offhand. I know it isn't in Australia, I presume it isn't in New Zealand, it isn't in South Africa so I am roughly presuming that to extend generally around the English-speaking countries in Africa, and I can't think of any English-speaking countries at all in South America.
Isn't fall pretty much US/Canada only? (And suddenly I'm not sure about Canada, because of that Barenaked Ladies lyric that goes as we walk together through the autumn, nearing winter, through the dying leaves and trees we call our home and native land.)
So, yeah. Regionalisation fail.
(And this is one of the areas where I think our word is just better, because "fall" has other, relatively unpleasant, meanings, and "autumn" is a pretty word and thoroughly unambiguous.)
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