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- From: arromdee@jyusenkyou.cs.jhu.edu (Ken Arromdee)
- Subject: Re: Calendar and Zodiac
- Message-ID: <1992Jul29.201007.1750@blaze.cs.jhu.edu>
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- Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 20:10:07 GMT
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- In article <9207291235.AA05080@cmr.ncsl.nist.gov> roberts@CMR.NCSL.NIST.GOV (John Roberts) writes:
- >In the British Empire, the month of September, 1752 lost 11 days (the day
- >after September 2 was September 14). It was the renters who complained,
- >because they had to pay a full month's rent.
- >
- >The months themselves have been around for thousands of years.
-
- OK. I've had it. Could someone in alt.folklore.urban please clear this up?
-
- The way I've usually heard this is as a "rebuttal" to the notion of
- superstitious peasants who felt that they lost 11 days out of their life
- because of the calendar change; the explanation, you see, is that they were
- upset about having to pay the extra 11 days rent, so they weren't acting on
- superstition at all.
-
- But even this seems rather suspicious to me. It implies a bit too much of a
- lack of common sense on the part of landlords. Does anyone know if this is
- what _really_ happened?
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