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To name the Months
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I just realized that about September-December, that's mindblowing and hilarious
the roman year started on march 1 so thats how they numbered months. English never caught up.
Neither did other European languages
*some. For example Croatian, Czech, Polish and Ukrainian are using local names.
Never said "all"