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To name the Months

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To name the Months

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Linguistics Humor@sh.itjust.worksEnglish · 1 year ago

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I was under the impression that July (Julious) and August (Augustus) were the two shoehored in
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  No they just renamed Quintilis (5th) and Sextilis (6th) to July and August
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    It sort of bothers me that we don’t change them back.
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      I’m all about sex month
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    That’s even dumber!

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