4 ms·
And (oct)ober was the 8th month of the year, (nov)ember the ninth, (dec)ember the tenth!
by amenghra 11mo ago
And (oct)ober was the 8th month of the year, (nov)ember the ninth, (dec)ember the tenth!
- Izikiel43 11mo agoDon't forget (sep)tember being the 7th month
- sltkr 11mo agoWeird parenthesization. The latin numbers are septem, octo, novem, decem for 7, 8, 9, 10. And then they all have a -ber suffix.
- amenghra 11mo agoThe three letter prefixes show up in English (eg oct in octal, dec in decimal, etc.).
- thaumasiotes 11mo agoThe prefix in "decimal" is "decim", like you'd expect given that the root is "decem". There is no "dec-" prefix. (You do see "deca" used as a prefix, "a" included, but that doesn't come from Latin.)
- amenghra 11mo agoYou are right. I should have written: (septem)ber was the 7th month of the year, (octo)ber was the 8th, (novem)ber the ninth, and (decem)ber the tenth!