In Latin, septem means "seven" and septimus means "seventh"; September was in fact the seventh month of the Roman calendar until 153 BC, when the first month changed from Kalendas Martius (1 March) to Kalendas Januarius (1 January).

Sip of the Day - June 23, 2008

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Titera's Tidbit: Raining Cats and Dogs
The comfortable, cartoon-like image we have of this English phrase is of dogs and cats raining down from the heavens, but the original is much less pleasant. In the seventeenth century, marked by plague and pestilence, a heavy rain would flood the gutters and carry off the always abundant dead cats and dogs that lay there. Such a heavy rain came to be characterized thus, even long after plague ceased to be a problem.

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