[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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