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True or not, it's finally given me the means to remember which months have how many days.
by iMark 12y ago
True or not, it's finally given me the means to remember which months have how many days.
- edgarallenbro 12y agoMake your hand into a fist Starting at the left, each knuckle and the space in between counts as one month. Count all the way across and when you get to the end of your fist, start over (or carry over to the next fist) Knuckle months have 31 days, months in between knuckles have 30 days (except for February)
- sirn 12y agoInteresting, I never thought of this problem before. In Thai, all month names are suffix with a word indicating number of days in a month. For example, "-khom" in "Mokkarakhom" (January) indicates 31 days, where "-yon" (e.g. Mesayon, "April") indicates 30 days. Benefit of being late-adopter allow us to name a month in a convenient way, I guess.
- gabriel34 12y agoInteresting. What about February and leap years? Does khom and yon have meanings? The rest of the month's name is based on what?
- sirn 12y agoFebruary is using a special suffix, "-phan". Both "-khom" and "-yon" means "come" or "arrival". Since our month names are basically a Zodiac in Hindu astrology, "Mokkarakhom" could be translated to "the arrival of Capricorn" (Mokkara/Makara) or April "Mesayon" is "the arrival of Aries" (Mesa).