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From: dik@cwi.nl (Dik T. Winter)
Newsgroups: comp.text
Subject: Re: Month Names
Message-ID: <7624@boring.cwi.nl>
Date: 1 Sep 88 00:37:50 GMT
References: <189@dcs.UUCP> <2903@hubcap.UUCP> <3782@polya.Stanford.EDU> <Aug.30.20.59.53.1988.20134@topaz.rutgers.edu> <564@vim.ARPA>
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In article <564@vim.ARPA> pjt@brl.arpa (Paul J. Tanenbaum (VLD/GSB) <pjt>) writes:
 > 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.
Nope.
July and Augustus had their names changed.  The original names were Quintilis
and Sextilis.
Nor were January and February squeezed in; they were moved from 11th and 12th
position to 1st and 2nd (that is why the additional day in leap years is in
February).  There are references to the older names of Undecember and
Dodecember for these months.
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