Is it fall or the fall?

Both those are correct. Here’s an alternative: In fall, the leaves turn color. (You could use “In the fall” there, as well.) I think you would use the article just as you would with any other season: spring, summer, autumn, winter.

What is the story Autumntime about?

1971. This story is set in a future where technology and artificial, or fake, objects have replaced many aspects of the life that we take for granted today. As you read, make note of the details that support how the narrator reacts to a real tree. “Autumnal Oak” by Mick Garratt is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0.

Is “autumntime” a word?

The premise that autumntime “is not a word” is faulty: it is a word. Unlike most dictionaries, the OED does include autumn-time. It is quite rare in comparison with the other seasons’ versions.

What is the difference between fall-time and autumn-time?

The word fall-time (no matter its spelling) is even less frequent than autumn-time, occurring too infrequently to try to assign relative frequencies. It also seems to be something of a North American regionalism, at least today. In particular, it surfaces in many accounts of the Yukon and Alaska, some of which I reference below.

Why don’t we say ‘fall time’ in English?

This explains why we don’t say “fall time”. The word “autumn” was borrowed from Old French in the 16th century, well after “springtime”, “summertime”, “harvesttime”, and “wintertime” were established, and for some reason these phrases were not extended to “autumntime”, even though it would have been a very logical development in English.

What is Falltime good to hear in W-Hollow?

Falltime is good to hear in W-Hollow. It is kindly sad, and if a body remembers the old-timers that used to be in W-Hollow in the falltime and remembers the frosty weed fields and the way they used to hunt — a body sorty wonders if the owls who-who for them in W-Hollow – them that used to be there an them there now.