Spring into summer FALL back to Winter

I watched ‘The Thomas Crown Affair’ the other night.

Couldn’t get over Faye Dunaway’s silly hats and her white tights.

So 60’s.

Steve McQueen as gorgeous as ever.

The Thomas Crown affair film from 1968 with Steve McQueen and the song Windmills of your mind sung by Noel Harrison.
Composed by a French man.

That the autumn leaves were turning
To the color of her hair.

The French version states autumn

Et les feuilles de l'automne rencontrent des ciels moins bleus
Et ton absence leur donne la couleur de tes cheveux

To add to Rosie's post, autumn was indeed called fall in England up until the 1600's. Autumn (deriving from the fancier sounding French word) then became fashionable. It was during the 1600's that English settlers went to America and, unaffected by the imported "new" word, they continued to use the term "fall". Before the word "fall" become common usage, the English called the season "harvest" but this was deemed too confusing.

Just to add some pedantry, the names of the seasons are not capitalised. They are correctly written as spring, summer, autumn and winter.

infoman

Maybe its because of all those cowboy/Westerns films I use to watch.

So did I!
Didn't we all 😀

Lone Ranger and Tonto!
I had a gun with caps.
It didn't turn me into a violent adult.

I incurred a double fracture of my leg one fall, in October 2013, to be precise. I prefer autumn, not fall!

Maybe its because of all those cowboy/Westerns films I use to watch.

I'm all for sticking with 'autumn', not 'fall', but still rely on the saying 'spring forward, fall back' to remind myself which way to adjust the clocks.

Either way, I can't wait for the clocks to change.
Now that I don't have to get up at a specific time to go to work, my body adjusts naturally to the changing daylight so I am 100% ready to move the clocks back now, and by the end of March I will be 100% ready to move them forwards again.

I prefer and use Autumn rather than Fall but it's origins are interesting, and older than I thought.

From www.dictionary.com/e/fall/
Why is it called fall?
Recorded use of the word fall as the name of the third season of the year comes from as early as the 1500s. The name is thought to originate in the phrase the fall of the leaf, in reference to the time of year when deciduous trees shed their leaves. The name of its inverse season, spring, is thought to come from the phrase spring of the leaf—the time when everything is blossoming.

The name fall was commonly used in England until about the end of the 1600s, when it was ousted by autumn.

The multiple senses of the word fall come in handy for the helpful reminder “Spring Forward, Fall Back,” which serves as a mnemonic about how to set our clocks for daylight-saving time.

Autumn for me as well. I don't mind the saying though. As pointed out Autumn is a lovely word as a lovely season.

I don’t mind the saying at all, but I use Autumn to describe the season and know at least a couple of people I’ll need to remind about the clocks this weekend.

I don't need reminding whether we put the clocks forward in the spring and back in the autumn, I just wish we cold all agree to drop this stupid Daylight saving act and measure time by the sun all year round!

I will stick to Autumn. Such a lovely word. I had. 'fall' recently and not lovely at all.

Allira

No, I don't like the word fall used instead of Autumn.

However, it does help to remember which way the clocks go:

Spring Forward
Fall Back.

This is the only way I remember which way the clocks go.

Dislike’fall’, a bit of a grey word,. Autumn is a lovely red, gold word

Well, there is a huge fall of leaves from the neighbours' trees which all seem to end up in our garden.
🌿🌱🧹

merlotgran

^Spring Forward^

Speak for yourself! 😂

Well, metaphorically speaking 😁
Think of bunnies! And March hares 🐇

I think we should stick with Autumn, but don't mind the word
Fall as it conjures up images of leaves falling from the trees in myriad colours.
And Allira is right, that little phrase, - Spring forward, Fall back - does help us to remember which is which.

Calendargirl

No, let the Americans keep ‘fall’, we’ll stick to ‘autumn’.

This.

Spring Forward

Speak for yourself! 😂

BlueBelle

I think we all agree for once except the Original poster 🤣🤣

Maybe not the first time!

No, I don't like the word fall used instead of Autumn.

However, it does help to remember which way the clocks go:

Spring Forward
Fall Back.

I think we all agree for once except the Original poster 🤣🤣

No, let the Americans keep ‘fall’, we’ll stick to ‘autumn’.

I love the word Autumn .
It's my favourite season to paint landscapes .
At ballet class ,we had to dress up as seasons for a display .
The Autumn costume was gorgeous - a mixture of gold , limes and scarlets .
I was sure that I'd be an Autumn .
Then the teacher read out our names.
I was a winter in a cool blue costume with a headdress made of a wire coat hanger entwined with silver tinsel .
I went home and asked my mother if she'd ask the ballet teacher if I could change with a girl who'd agreed to swop .It went down like a lead balloon .

RosiesMaw2

I don’t OP
How could anybody love the word “fall” ?

Especially if and when anyone says you’ve had one, after you’ve happened to trip and fall over.

There was a post on MN recently saying the OP was very concerned about a relative of 73, because she’d ’had a fall’.

A lot of posters were quick to point out that 73 is not considered doddery-old-age nowadays, and that one trip and falling over (there was an obvious non-health related cause) did not mean that said relative needed to wear a pendant and attend a falls clinic.