From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!npoiv!npois!cbosgd!nscs!rew
Newsgroups: net.followup
Title: Naming the Months (Second Try)
Article-I.D.: nscs.370
Posted: Wed Oct 27 11:18:56 1982
Received: Thu Oct 28 05:28:04 1982


Let me try this again:

Webster's derivations of the names of the months:

March -- sacred to the god Mars and the first month of the Roman calendar
April -- probably from the name of an Etruscan goddes of love
May   -- from the name of a goddess associated with Vulcan
June  -- the goddess Juno
July  -- Julius Caesar
August - Augustus Caesar
September -- Seventh 
October -- Eigth
November -- Ninth
December -- Tenth
January -- sacred to Janus the two faced god (but not the first month)
February -- from the name of a feast of purification held on the
	fifteenth of the month

Bob Warren
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