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minus-squarepruwyben@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkarrow-up5·2 years agoI was just reading about this a little while ago. Basically the year used to start with March, and they didn’t have names for January and February since not much happened in winter. Eventually they got named and turned into the first two months. https://www.almanac.com/how-did-months-get-their-names
minus-squareRQG@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·2 years agoI love the thought that January and February were so boring they didn’t even get names.
I was just reading about this a little while ago. Basically the year used to start with March, and they didn’t have names for January and February since not much happened in winter. Eventually they got named and turned into the first two months.
https://www.almanac.com/how-did-months-get-their-names
I love the thought that January and February were so boring they didn’t even get names.