To hate this word ?

[whyispeppainthenightgarden]

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 ?

[whyispeppainthenightgarden]

God I am fucking this up aren’t I

[Conseulabananahammock]

Not at all. I have some serious irrational dislikes. Sometimes they can be just normal words, or how people say them.
"Moist" is one of them.

[BigDamnHero]

Do Americans use the word 'autumnal'? 'Fally' or 'fall-like' don't really have the same flair...

[Conseulabananahammock]

How come no-one uses "springy" or springnal"... I may do this just to be a twat

[TheWholeHog]

Americans say ‘fallal’.

[Ohyesiam]

How do you mean people just used to say autumn? The two words don’t interchange. Its like dressy and dress, or lump and lumpy ordog and , er dogging.

[MemoryOfSleep]

@freezerbird vernal means spring-like, really? Hmm. Learn something new every day and all that.

[longwayoff]

Springlike = vernal

[BertrandRussell]

As in vernal equinox.

[whyispeppainthenightgarden]

Tbh now I think about it more I probably do say autumney ( yes ino it’s made up. Autumnal sounds like a transformer

[Conseulabananahammock]

Autumny reporting for duty!! I imagine it's a transformer that changes from a pine cone to some sort of bicycle......

[Conseulabananahammock]

*autumnal even.... ffs stupid made up words 😂😂

[stellabird]

Autumn is a noun - I like the autumn.

Autumnal is an adjective - I like the colours in an autumnal garden.

[Conseulabananahammock]

Or... I like the colours of the garden in autumn.

[whyispeppainthenightgarden]

conselual I like your thinking

[LakieLady]

But why don’t the other seasons get the same treatment?

Springal
Summeral
Winteral?

Wrong. And they are far superior seasons.

They sort of do, but they use the Latin word for the season, so summery is estival and wintery is hibernal. I suppose spring-like would be primaveral.

[DGRossetti]

Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness ...

Presumably "Autumn" displaced "fall" around about the time we started spelling "check" "cheque" ?

[LakieLady]

The one for spring is 'vernal' but I'll admit that one comes up less!

Of course it is! I feel like a twat now.

[DGRossetti]

The one for spring is 'vernal' but I'll admit that one comes up less!

Maybe because it's word shape is a little close to "venereal" . Which could, I suppose, be construed as a ailment of the spring .....

[StoneofDestiny]

Autumnal, Summery, Spring like, Wintry.
What's the problem ~ certainly not a new or unusual word.

[Conseulabananahammock]

@whyispeppa I'm a regular trailblazer 😂😂

[IamPickleRick]

If talking about my crafting colour palette for sping, I would say “spring time colours” rather than spring like. Vernal sounds like Vernon