{"id":6332,"date":"2018-08-24T10:46:30","date_gmt":"2018-08-24T10:46:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/utalk.com\/news\/?p=6332"},"modified":"2026-08-25T13:15:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-25T12:15:13","slug":"fall-in-and-out-of-fashion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/utalk.com\/en\/news\/fall-in-and-out-of-fashion","title":{"rendered":"Fall In and Out of Fashion"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1500\" height=\"1000\" src=\"https:\/\/utalk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/GettyImages-1165592042.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7245\" srcset=\"https:\/\/utalk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/GettyImages-1165592042.jpg 1500w, https:\/\/utalk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/GettyImages-1165592042-250x167.jpg 250w, https:\/\/utalk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/GettyImages-1165592042-700x467.jpg 700w, https:\/\/utalk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/GettyImages-1165592042-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/utalk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/GettyImages-1165592042-120x80.jpg 120w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1500px) 100vw, 1500px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Both the US and Britain took a leaf out of the same book back in the 17<sup>th<\/sup> century when it came to naming seasons.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Thanks to British settlers in the New World, the two British names for our third season \u2013&nbsp; Autumn and Fall (short for Fall of the Leaf) \u2013 entered the American language.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But, over the next few hundred years, Americans favoured the word Fall whereas the Brits back in England favoured the word Autumn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Autumn incidentally comes from the Old French word autompne (now automne in modern French) which in turn comes from the Latin word automnus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Other words for Autumn which derive from Latin include the Italian word autunno, the Spanish oto\u00f1o and the Portuguese outono.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Both the US and Britain took a leaf out of the same book back in the 17th century when it&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fun-stuff"],"acf":[],"lang":"en","translations":{"en":6332},"taxonomy_info":{"category":[{"value":24,"label":"Fun stuff"}]},"featured_image_src_large":false,"author_info":{"display_name":"Richard Howeson","author_link":"https:\/\/utalk.com\/en\/news\/author\/richard"},"comment_info":1,"category_info":[{"term_id":24,"name":"Fun stuff","slug":"fun-stuff","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":24,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":87,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":24,"category_count":87,"category_description":"","cat_name":"Fun stuff","category_nicename":"fun-stuff","category_parent":0}],"tag_info":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/utalk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/utalk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/utalk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/utalk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/utalk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6332"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/utalk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6332\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10623,"href":"https:\/\/utalk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6332\/revisions\/10623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/utalk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/utalk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/utalk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}