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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:
One form of the mnemonic is done by counting on the knuckles of one's hand to remember the number of days in each month. [1] 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 ...
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 leap year, coming once in four,February then has one day more." But it's ...
THIRTY DAYS HATH SEPTEMBER APRIL JUNE AND NOVEMBER ALL THE REST HAVE THIRTY ONE EXCEPT FOR FEB - THE ONLY MONTH TO RUN FOR TWENTY EIGHT DAYS CLEAR AND TWENTY NINE IN EACH LEAP YEAR. boo yah - come on that's gold--Hamishgordon 15:13, 29 March 2018 (UTC) The way I was always taught this rhyme had some different lines, which are bolded:
A French poem, similar to "Thirty days hath September", numbering the days of the month, was recorded in the 13th century. [7] From the later Middle Ages, there are records of short children's rhyming songs, often as marginalia. [8] From the mid-16th century, they began to be recorded in English plays. [2] "
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