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Okay, but can we come up with a calendar system where the months September, October, November, and December don't have the wrong names? It has always bothered me that the prefix sept- means seven, but it is the ninth month, oct- is for the tenth month, etc...

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Those names are from when the calendar only had 10 months. They tacked on two months at the beginning.

In other fun facts, March is so named because that's when you go to war.

Have a 14-month year, then start the following year in March.

Sold. This could have the added benefit that every leap year we can get two days off for new years eve, since people will be used to getting Feb 28th off anyway ;)

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