To hate this word ?

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Autumnal it just fills me with rage. I’m sure the first time I heard it used was last year but just don’t like it at all. AIBU ?

How can people not have heard the word Autumnal before?! I'm in my 40's and I've known it since I was a kid!

Fashion and beauty has been using 'Autumnal palette' and similar bollockish things for decades.

In food-speak and probably any recipe book Nigel Slater has ever written: 'Autumnal flavours.'

I don't doubt it, I'm just really surprised!

Huh? It’s a great word and I don’t understand how you’ve only just come across it. How can you say autumn instead of autumnal? It wouldn’t sound right. Would you say summer instead of summery?

Thank you paddling for explaining boof for me.

Yes, definitely nothing poetical about that.

I don't know how to pronounce it. Feels like a tongue twister in my accent!

The Urban Dictionary defines boof as "to abuse any licit or illicit substance via insertion into one's rectum" (which is another vile word!)

Bork is in the OED and means "to obstruct (someone, especially a candidate for public office) by systematically defaming or vilifying them".

she because it’s a new trendy word!

...I mean, it’s only been around since the 16th century. No time at all really.

😂🤣😂🤣

It’s a lovely word, autumnal 🍁🍂🍁🍂🍁

Oh dear I'm being really boringly didactic here, sorry.

MorrisZapp Few-near-ree-ul. Emphasis on near.

If your gonna get upset about a word, make it a good one.
gusset was my colleague's yuk word.

Yes, well I think 'boof' is probably the word I'm not liking at the moment.

I don't really get it OP. What's wrong with it? Its not a new word, its16th century and I've heard it used all my life. I hadn't noticed it being hip.

Its not used interchangeably with autumn its an adjective as others have said like summery, wintry etc. They are used differently.

I have a lovely, sweet natured calico cat named Autumn so I quite like that word.

YABU purely on the basis of not liking it because it's a 'new' word, when it's not.

Agree with everyone else - 'autumn' and 'autumnal' are not inter-changeable. One is a noun, one's an adjective. They're used differently.

People coming on to say they've only just heard the word, as if that's some sort of GAVEL / drop the mic / here endeth the debate, just come across as very ... um ... sheltered.

But it’s not as bad as the word “cupcakes”

What's wrong with cupcakes? Is that just a North American term? (Canadian, here.)

Oh it's lovely 🍁🎃

Well I’m clearly in the wrong I did not no that it was such an old word. Maybe because it seems so overused now that I have only just noticed it as a word

Glad I’m not completely on my own now with its dislike.

Think as pp said perhaps it’s because it is a bit clunky, I dont don’t think it flows the same way As wintry or summery.

Also no worried I have made myself look very stupid by not knowing the. Word ( or a lot more stupid than I actually am )

I hate cupcakes too. And I make them, among other things, for what I laughingly call my living.

Wintery and summery are the winter and summer expressions of the same thing. The one for spring is 'vernal' but I'll admit that one comes up less!

OMG! YA soooo BU! It's one of my favourite words.

I agree OP. It's a shit word that always sounds cheesy when said aloud.

Maybe go back to calling it "fall" ?

Fall is American? I always have said it feels like autumn today instead of autumnal

Fall is originally English, but it was Leaf Fall, a very poetic description.

Just say autumny just to piss people off