ABSTRACT
Another word that seems to have suffered a sort of sea change in Great Britain, though not enough to spoil it, is fall, meaning autumn, which word, by the way, is only by present practice especially American, it having been formerly in use on the other side of the ocean. However, it is not in general use there now, and our understanding of the term does not seem to be very accurately grasped; at least I read some time ago in the London Agricultural Gazette a letter from Prof. J. P. Sheldon, headed "The Fall," and beginning with the statement that "by the terse and indicative pair of words that are placed at the head of this article, our American cousins denote the last three months of the year, or possibly some of them leave out the last month of the twelve." What American ever included December as a "fall" month-or failed to include September?
