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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:
One form of the mnemonic is done by counting on the knuckles of one's hand to remember the number of days in each month. [1] 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 ...
That the months alternate in number in this way is not evident at all from the verse, which has all the months mixed up for the spurious reason of rhyme. For that reason, people who work out the "days of the month" by the verse are largely unaware that the months alternate sequentially between 31 and 30 (with some minor exceptions).
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] "
The following is a list of notable month-long observances, recurrent months that are used by various governments, groups and organizations to raise awareness of an issue, commemorate a group or event, or celebrate something.
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A section of the hieroglyphic calendar at the Kom Ombo Temple, displaying the transition from Month XII to Month I without mention of the five epagomenal days. Astronomical ceiling from the Tomb of Senenmut (XVIII Dynasty, c. 1479 –1458 BC), discovered in Thebes, Upper Egypt; facsimile preserved in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. [1]