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Comment by mijkal

> Then they got lazy and just numbered the months.

* Chinese et al have entered the chat

This pattern is fairly common around the world.

It's amusing to me that in the Western world, the original Latin designations are off by two as we moved the start month but never adjusted the corresponding month numbers (so DECember (10) = 12, etc).

parent mijkal 2 years ago

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