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From: rjh@ihlpa.ATT.COM (Herber)
Newsgroups: comp.text
Subject: Re: Month Names
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Date: 1 Sep 88 22:25:49 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 <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

No months were added. July is the *renamed* 5ember (to use the previous model) and
August is the *renamed* 6ember. The change was that in Roman calendars the year
started in March, when elected officals took office. This is also why January is
named after Janus, the two faced god; and February is the month that receives the
leap day in a leap year, it put the leap day at the end of the year.

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