The words “September, October, November, and December” contain the latin roots for the numbers 7, 8, 9, and 10. So why do those months hold different positions in the calendar?
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The Romans had a ten month calendar but then they added July and August (named after Julius and Augustus). That’s the Julian calendar that stuck around in the former Roman empire, until Pope Gregory ordered it to be changed for the Gregorian calendar (which added some new rules for leap years to keep everything in sync) that we still use today.
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