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).

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Titera's Tidbit: Gerrymander
Controlling a voting district by rigging its boundaries to exclude members of the opposition is a dirty but common trick. One of its most adept practitioners was a Massachusetts governor named Elbridge Gerry, who carved out a district that, to one newspaper editor, resembled a salamander in shape. Combining the two words, that editor coined this term in 1812.

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