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Still more on dates
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"Tarter, Brent (LVA)" <[log in to unmask]>
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Tarter, Brent (LVA)
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Wed, 28 Jan 2009 15:38:17 -0500
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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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