Anon #1: I hate that SEPTember, OCTOber, NOVember and DECember aren't the 7th, 8th, 9th and 10th months.
Anon #2: Whoever fucked this up should get stabbed
Anon #3: IIRC, they did use to be the corresponding months. Until Roman leaders Julius Caesar and Augustus came into power and added July and August, thus throwing off the numbering of the calendar.
Anon #4: Good news, though: whoever fucked it up did in fact get stabbed.
(Source: paraphrased after tumblr, it's kind of a meme)
The equinoxes or either solstice really would make more sense as days to organise our calendar around...
It's always the way; you get everybody used to something and then it's more trouble than it's worth to change it. Americans are still on Imperial measurements. Electrons flow opposite to the direction of current in a circuit. And the word circuit isn't even spelled "surkit." C'est la vie!
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Anon #1: I hate that SEPTember, OCTOber, NOVember and DECember aren't the 7th, 8th, 9th and 10th months.
Anon #2: Whoever fucked this up should get stabbed
Anon #3: IIRC, they did use to be the corresponding months. Until Roman leaders Julius Caesar and Augustus came into power and added July and August, thus throwing off the numbering of the calendar.
Anon #4: Good news, though: whoever fucked it up did in fact get stabbed.
(Source: paraphrased after tumblr, it's kind of a meme)
The equinoxes or either solstice really would make more sense as days to organise our calendar around...
It's always the way; you get everybody used to something and then it's more trouble than it's worth to change it. Americans are still on Imperial measurements. Electrons flow opposite to the direction of current in a circuit. And the word circuit isn't even spelled "surkit." C'est la vie!