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Thirty Days Hath September", or "Thirty Days Has September", [1] is a traditional verse mnemonic used to remember the number of days in the months of the Julian and Gregorian calendars. It arose as an oral tradition and exists in many variants. It is currently earliest attested in English, but was and remains common throughout Europe as well. Full:
Knuckles are counted as 31 days, depressions between knuckles as 30 (or 28/29) days. One starts with the little finger knuckle as January, and one finger or depression at a time is counted towards the index finger knuckle (July), saying the months while doing so.
Thirty days hath September, April, June, and November; Thirty-one the others date, Excepting February, twenty-eight; But in leap year we assign February, twenty-nine. So I've put that in.Hilesd 06:35, 13 June 2007 (UTC) And Another version that actually rhymes: 30 DAYS HAS NOVEMBER, APRIL, JUNE, AND SEPTEMBER;
Thirty Days, a 1916 film starring Oliver Hardy; Thirty ... Thirty Days Hath September", a mnemonic rhyme; Thirty Days' War, the Greco-Turkish War of 1897
The months were 29 or 30 days in length, loosely in alternation, since the Moon orbits the Earth in roughly 29.5 days. However, rather than following a set scheme (such as the popular rhyme "Thirty days hath September..."), the duration of each month was declared just before month's end in an attempt to latch the first of the following month ...
A French poem, similar to "Thirty days hath September", numbering the days of the month, was recorded in the 13th century. [7] From the later Middle Ages, there are records of short children's rhyming songs, often as marginalia. [8] From the mid-16th century, they began to be recorded in English plays. [2] "
A noticeable warmup is expanding across the Northeastern states through midweek, AccuWeather meteorologists say. This burst of early September heat may be welcomed by vacationers flocking to the ...
A claim frequently encountered is that when Julius Caesar reformed the calendar he gave the odd months 31 days and the even ones thirty and that when Caesar Augustus reformed it he jealously swiped a day from February, added it to Augustus so that his month would be as long as Julius', and then rearranged the lengths of September onwards so ...