Here I go again.

Autumn \Au"tumn\, n. [L. auctumnus, autumnus, perh. fr. a root
av to satisfy one's self: cf. F. automne. See Avarice.]

Perhaps the harvest season was one seen as satisfying one's labors of the spring and summer?
 
As the Old Timer used to say, "That ain't the way I heard it".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autumn

And that's not the point. What I want to know is why the other Seasons got short shrift when it came to names.
 
Well after naming Fall/Autumn/Harvest, they were just to tired and lazy to think of 3 diff names for all 4 seasons.
 
JerryP said:
OK, we call Autumn, Fall. I understand it was once called Harvest too.

How come we don't call Winter, Frozen and Summer, Hot and Spring, Bloom or something like that? What's the deal with Autumn?
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I have always called this season "fall" because that's what all the leaves do here in New England :)
 
Dude, step away from the bottle.......
 
I am willing to bet it was Maker's Mark
 
JerryP said:
How come we don't call Winter, Frozen and Summer, Hot and Spring, Bloom or something like that? What's the deal with Autumn?
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Who said we didn't? At least I do anyway, in the winter I say I am freezing my knickers off, it's freezing, I am frozen, it's frozen outside, and of course it can never get too hot for me but I always say it's hotter than blazes outside during summer, I mean to validate your logic, I was thinking your questioning should run along the lines of "Why don't we call Fall, Autumn, etc. Warm?" Maybe I missed the point.
 
by the way, I don't call spring bloom, I just call it spring :teeth:
 
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