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To: kiltie65
I heard a version of that as a kid but probably not in kindergarten.

Anyway the Roman version would have been in Latin:

Dies triginta habent September, Aprilis, Junius et November...

...but I'm not sure how it went before Augustus stole a day from February.

81 posted on 02/01/2016 9:00:23 AM PST by Verginius Rufus
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To: Verginius Rufus

It was a stern school (Scotland during WW II). Actually we didn’t have Kindergarten...straight into Primary 1. Did learn a bit of Latin, come to think of it, but all of it in hymns and responses to the Mass...not much of it flawless. I know I got a good whack by a pitiless Nun while singing the Tantum Ergo. I thought the last line was “no peace on earth in patria” instead of “nobis donet in patria”. Now in my advanced years, I still insert “no peace on earth” quietly for the hell of it, and get away with it.


113 posted on 02/01/2016 9:53:21 AM PST by kiltie65
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