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The silly season is the period lasting for a few months (starting in mid to late summer in the Northern Hemisphere) in the United States, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Canada, New Zealand and Australia typified by the emergence of frivolous news stories in the media. This term was known by the end of the 19th century and listed in the second edition of Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable and remains in use at the start of the 21st century. The fifteenth edition of Brewer'sSouthern Hemisphere summer. expands on the second, defining the silly season as "the part of the year when Parliament and the Law Courts are not sitting (about August and September)". In Australia and New Zealand, the silly season has come to refer to the Christmas/New Year festive period, which are in the
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