[Elfsea] October - or Roman Weirdness
Robin Mitchell-Mabry
smabry at flash.net
Wed Oct 4 12:09:47 PDT 2006
That seems to be the only day they work anyway. :-)
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13 months of 28 days each - the extra day is Chaos Day where only the
government can do work.
Karie Mitchell <karie.mitchell at gmail.com> wrote:
If you are really interested look here:
http://webexhibits.org/calendars/calendar-roman.html
October, October, October
Why is the tenth month named for the eighth
something?
octo = 8 - right?
Should it not be Dectober?
That would put Christmas in Dozenember.
Allessandra
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