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the season that throws a chromatic tantrum before going completely dormant for three months.
means To drop or descend toward the ground under gravity, often suddenly or without control; also, in American English, the autumn season.
from From Old English 'feallan,' to drop or fail, with Germanic cousins in Old Norse 'falla' and Old High German 'fallan.' The season's name is a poetic clipping of the older phrase 'fall of the leaf,' a tidy mirror to 'spring' (the rising of plants). Both 'fall' and 'autumn' crossed the Atlantic, but England largely settled on 'autumn' while America kept the leafy 'fall' — making it one of those words where the New World preserved the older English habit.
- color cause
- Leaves were always orange; green chlorophyll just hid it
- two names
- Americans say fall, Brits say autumn, both correct
- falling speed
- A leaf drifts down at roughly one mile per hour
- equal day
- The equinox splits day and night nearly evenly worldwide
- squirrel scam
- They forget where most buried nuts are, planting forests
niagara falls — waterfall on border of ontario and new york, 188 feet high, 750,000 gallons per second