Yeah our Autumn months were named using Latin terms, Septem (7), Octo (8)
and Novem (9). I assume Decem or something similar translates to 10.

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Paul Drake's recent message about numbering the months reminded me of yet
another way in which the change of calendars can lead us astray.
Once in a great while I run across an 18th-century document dated, say 10ber
25th or 8ber 31st. Don't county months by the moder calendar and think that
10ber was October or that 8ber was August. Latin was a work
there: 10ber was December, and 8ber was October.
 
Brent Tarter
Library of Virginia
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