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 - November 21, 2008

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Titera's Tidbit: Brat
The people of medieval England wouldn't have understood the phrase "spoiled brat" because a bratt was a rough piece of cloth, something like a burlap sack, the children of poor people wore. A "brat", by extension, was any poor child. Only in the nineteenth century did the word come to mean any misbehaving child, no matter what his or her social status.

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