From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!npoiv!alice!rhm
Newsgroups: net.followup
Title: Names of Months
Article-I.D.: alice.1018
Posted: Tue Oct 26 21:57:51 1982
Received: Wed Oct 27 09:26:33 1982


The news that the month of May is derived from a Scandinavian word
rather than from the Latin certainly will come as surprise to most
linguists,

Isn't it odd that every other month name in English comes from the
Latin name for the same month but May doesn't, even though the Latin
word for May was Maia.