Talk:Thirty days hath September

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[edit] Alternate Lines

The way I was always taught this rhyme had some different lines, which are bolded:

Thirty days hath September
April, June, and November
February has twenty-eight alone,
All the rest have thirty-one.
Except in leap year, that's the time
When February days have twenty-nine.

Think this could be added? -- RattleMan 08:48, 26 December 2005 (UTC)

Interesting. I'd never come across that variant, but Google shows quite a few people using it. And it has a very interesting feature, which I've commented on in the article. — Haeleth Talk 12:47, 26 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Other mnemotics?

Believe it or not but I had never heard of that mnemotic rhyme before!
The way I learned the duration of the months back in kindergarden was to look at my right hand, fist closed.
It works like this: count the months over your knuckles and the grooves between them.
The knuckle of the index is January - it sticks out, so it's a "long" month (31 days).
February is the groove between the index and middle finger knuckle (a "short" month).
March is the middle finger knuckle (a "long" month) etc.
When you reach the pinkie (July, "long"), start over at the index (August, "long" again) and continue...
Simple, right? Sure, it doesn't tell you that February has 28 or 29 days rather than 30 but I never found that hard to remember.
71.240.26.227 19:10, 5 May 2006 (UTC)

Other calendar mnemonics are discussed in the main article on mnemonics. It has one like that, but using both hands instead of going over one hand twice. — Haeleth Talk 21:54, 5 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Other languages

Since the Gregorian Calander is used world wide, how do the mnenomics go in other languages?

Tabletop 11:37, 1 October 2006 (UTC)