https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/api.php?action=feedcontributions&feedformat=atom&user=162.158.110.225explain xkcd - User contributions [en]2026-04-14T23:30:31ZUser contributionsMediaWiki 1.30.0https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=Talk:2825:_Autumn_and_Fall&diff=323440Talk:2825: Autumn and Fall2023-09-07T07:05:14Z<p>162.158.110.225: 8 season system vs 5 names</p>
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:Who calls it the "fall equinox"? I thought the equinoctes were always described as "vernal" and "autumnal"? [[User:Mathmannix|Mathmannix]] ([[User talk:Mathmannix|talk]]) 19:11, 6 September 2023 (UTC)<br />
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:: Americans sometimes call it the fall equinox casually [[Special:Contributions/172.71.158.100|172.71.158.100]] 19:56, 6 September 2023 (UTC)<br />
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:WRT the alt text, perhaps this is a woosh moment, but "fall" isn't at all common in British parlance. We know it, but only as an Americanism of what we would just call "Autumn". [[Special:Contributions/172.68.19.103|172.68.19.103]] 20:55, 6 September 2023 (UTC)<br />
:: That's the joke. Just as Americans don't typically use "autumn", the UK does not use "fall". [[Special:Contributions/172.69.34.12|172.69.34.12]] 21:45, 6 September 2023 (UTC)<br />
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What "type of five-season system shown in the comic"? The comic doesn't show five-season system. It shows EIGHT season system. We just only know names of five of them. -- [[User:Hkmaly|Hkmaly]] ([[User talk:Hkmaly|talk]]) 23:17, 6 September 2023 (UTC)<br />
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: That's the point, though: if the English language had an 8-season system, we'd have 8 names for them — but we only have 5. [[Special:Contributions/162.158.110.225|162.158.110.225]] 07:05, 7 September 2023 (UTC)</div>162.158.110.225