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: Pluto
Discovered in 1930. An eleven-year-old English girl read an account of the discovery and noted the planet had yet to be named. She suggested the dark, cold, and distant object by named for the Greek god of the underworld. Her grandfather happened to have a friend who taught astronomy at Oxford. The professor got in touch with the American discover, and "Pluto" it was.

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