The twelfth of never

Mark A. Mandel mamandel at LDC.UPENN.EDU
Mon Sep 25 01:46:00 UTC 2006


(topic: fanspeak) And we can thank Tolkien for "on Friday the first", or in
full "on Friday the first of Summerfilth". No month ever started on a Friday
in the Shire calendar. October(?) was dialectally also called Winterfilth
("referring to the filling of harvest before winter), but there was no month
of Summerfilth.

m a m

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