The Inner Circle and Christmas - a thought on this Holy Day

How many people in the general population know that October was named that because it was the "eighth" month, November was named that because it was the "ninth" month and December was named that because it was the "tenth" month?

While many (if not most) of us know that, I doubt that it's common knowledge.

I also doubt that Safeholdians would know the original meanings of the names of the months and would know the original meanings of the names of the days.

TN4994 wrote:

JeffEngel wrote:
I believe the idea was to take our current twelve month list and slice off the month at either end. The seven day week got the same treatment. The Roman calendar and the names of the months had nothing to do with it; Norse deity names had nothing to do with the resulting weekday names. Apart, in both cases, from a remote etymology the meaning of which was not preserved on Safehold.

I noticed that. DW just treated the names as common language and disregarded the historical significance, because he chose to.

And September is named from the Latin for seven. The number of the months shifted when the Romans stuck July (for Julius Caesar) in and Augustus renamed sextii (six) after himself, not to mention Numa Pompilius having already stuck January and February in ahead of March, totally messing up the month's names.

DrakBibliophile wrote:How many people in the general population know that October was named that because it was the "eighth" month, November was named that because it was the "ninth" month and December was named that because it was the "tenth" month?

While many (if not most) of us know that, I doubt that it's common knowledge.

I also doubt that Safeholdians would know the original meanings of the names of the months and would know the original meanings of the names of the days.

DrakBibliophile wrote:How many people in the general population know that October was named that because it was the "eighth" month, November was named that because it was the "ninth" month and December was named that because it was the "tenth" month?

While many (if not most) of us know that, I doubt that it's common knowledge.

I also doubt that Safeholdians would know the original meanings of the names of the months and would know the original meanings of the names of the days.

It almost is certainly not known to the Safeholdians, as that would imply (among other things) the existence of another language, since Septem, Octo, Novem, and Decem are not the English words for 7, 8, 9, and 10. That actually raises the very off topic thought of did Langhorne (or Bedard) edit the colonists language knowledge to delete words like octagonal or decimal? And why did they hang onto a base 10 system for calculation if they were going to use Roman numerals anyway?