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To name the Months (i.imgur.com)

submitted 2 years ago by Jakylla@sh.itjust.works to c/linguistics_humor@sh.itjust.works

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[–] FederatedSaint@lemmy.world 27 points 2 years ago (1 children)

And they're not even correctly numbered! Stupid Julius and Augustus ruined friggin EVERYTHING

Sep - 7 Oct - 8 Nov - 9 Dec - 10

[–] lugal@sopuli.xyz 26 points 2 years ago (1 children)

As someone else already pointed out: it was January and February that were added later. July and August just replaced the old names.

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 23 points 2 years ago (1 children)

To add for anyone that's new to this, January and February were originally considered not a real part of the year because everyone was hunkered down for the winter.

[–] ComradePorkRoll@lemmy.ml 9 points 2 years ago

We should do that again.