mascarasnake ,

Or as we call it in the Southern U.S., “Summer Lite,” where the daily high temps are finally at or below 90°F a good bit of the time. We keep getting teasers of autumn, but it’ll be a week or two depending on where you live. The heat index in Houston looks to be 105°F today, so autumn is still a little ways off. Ouch.

ares35 ,
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it's winter that is just weeks away.

Z3k3 ,

British person here.

Never heard of fall till American TV made it here

randomaccount43543 OP ,

I never heard of fall until I watched an Apple keynote

TWeaK ,

thatsthejoke.jpg. The alt text is saying that the UK have fall and autumn the other way around.

EinfachUnersetzlich ,

We don’t have fall at all.

TWeaK ,

I know (I’m British) and the US doesn’t have Autumn. They are the other way around.

In the comic, the US has both, with Autumn in the brief period before Summer ends and Fall starts. The alt text is saying the UK has the two the other way around.

bluGill ,

American here. I went to first grade with a girl named Autumn. Other than her I've never heard anyone use the word, though I've seen it in print enough to know elsewhere in the English speaking world it is used.

scottywh ,

American here…

Everyone I’ve ever known has used Fall and Autumn interchangeably.

lugal ,

German here. We call it Herbst

randomaccount43543 OP ,

explainxkcd.com/2825

Spzi ,

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.

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