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> some months have misleading Latin names that are off-by-2 To expand on this: "sept-" is a prefix meaning 7, like septuplets. But September is the 9th month o
by nayuki 3y ago
> some months have misleading Latin names that are off-by-2
To expand on this: "sept-" is a prefix meaning 7, like septuplets. But September is the 9th month of the year. "oct-" means 8 like octagon, but October is the 10th month of the year. And so on for November and December.