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From: pjt@vim.ARPA (Paul J. Tanenbaum )
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Subject: Month Names
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Date: 31 Aug 88 18:06:44 GMT
References: <189@dcs.UUCP> <2903@hubcap.UUCP> <3782@polya.Stanford.EDU> <Aug.30.20.59.53.1988.20134@topaz.rutgers.edu>
Reply-To: pjt@brl.arpa (Paul J. Tanenbaum (VLD/GSB) <pjt>)
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In article <Aug.30.20.59.53.1988.20134@topaz.rutgers.edu> linhart@topaz.rutgers.edu.UUCP (D-ro 3.) writes:
>have a regular job.  Four month names are number forms, anyway (and
>misleading, too, since January and February were inserted).

     No, it's July and August that were added--by Julius Caesar and Augustus,
respectively--and that squeezed 7ember, 8ober, 9ember, and 10ember out of their
original positions.
     +++paul

     pjt@brl.mil