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Thirty Days Hath September", or "Thirty Days Has September", [1] is a traditional verse mnemonic used to remember the number of days in the months of the Julian and Gregorian calendars. It arose as an oral tradition and exists in many variants. It is currently earliest attested in English, but was and remains common throughout Europe as well. Full:
Knuckles are counted as 31 days, depressions between knuckles as 30 (or 28/29) days. One starts with the little finger knuckle as January, and one finger or depression at a time is counted towards the index finger knuckle (July), saying the months while doing so.
You use the poem: "30 days hath September / April, June and November. / All the rest have 31 / but February's 28. / The leap year, / which comes once in four, / gives February one day more."
"Thirty days hath September,April, June and November,All the rest have thirty-one,Save February at twenty-eight." But there are two other lines known not quite as commonly. "But leap year, coming ...
Europeans sometimes attempt to remember the number of days in each month by memorizing some form of the traditional verse "Thirty Days Hath September". It appears in Latin, [ 73 ] Italian, [ 74 ] French [ 75 ] and Portuguese, [ 76 ] and belongs to a broad oral tradition but the earliest currently attested form of the poem is the English ...
Thirty days hath September, April, June, and November; Thirty-one the others date, Excepting February, twenty-eight; But in leap year we assign February, twenty-nine. So I've put that in.Hilesd 06:35, 13 June 2007 (UTC) And Another version that actually rhymes: 30 DAYS HAS NOVEMBER, APRIL, JUNE, AND SEPTEMBER;
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Thirty Days Hath September; V. List of visual mnemonics; X. Xyzzy (computing) This page was last edited on 8 November 2023, at 19:07 (UTC). Text is available under ...