Fall or Autumn

Well the answer to that particular question is Fall. At least it is and always has been in Texas. The only reason that I grew up even knowing there was an alternate word for it was some mention in an obscure first grade reader schoolbook. It was probably written and published by someone from the north. Of course I immediately filed that word in with the other useless words written in primary readers by some yankee writer. You know, words that have no meaning or reference to a Texas native. Like mittens or snow or golashes. It's a good thing they included a pictoral reference or I would have assumed it was a medical condition. Lost her mittens or lost her mind sounds like the same thing to me.
As a matter of fact, there are probably a lot of cross culture words that I could remove and never miss. There are also some that have more that one meaning like stoop. Down here it means bending ov a little closer to the ground. Up north stoop is a tiny front porch. In Texas we just have different sized porches. Little ones, big ones, medium sized are all called porches. Of course when you get a great big one and your family wants to put on airs they call it a veranda. It's still a porch to me.
A word of caution. This story has no moral, This story has no end...
Bye now.