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[-] FederatedSaint@lemmy.world 27 points 1 year ago

And they're not even correctly numbered! Stupid Julius and Augustus ruined friggin EVERYTHING

Sep - 7 Oct - 8 Nov - 9 Dec - 10

[-] lugal@sopuli.xyz 26 points 1 year ago

As someone else already pointed out: it was January and February that were added later. July and August just replaced the old names.

[-] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 23 points 1 year ago

To add for anyone that's new to this, January and February were originally considered not a real part of the year because everyone was hunkered down for the winter.

[-] ComradePorkRoll@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 year ago

We should do that again.

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