LEEP YEAR
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02-06-2017, 03:08 PM
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RE: LEEP YEAR
(01-27-2017 04:47 PM)JMB Wrote: Very nice!Certainly simpler than the French "Bissextile", altho' the same word used to be used in English long ago: Origin late Middle English: from Latin bisextilis (annus) or bissextilis (annus) ‘the year of the bissextus’, from bissextus (from bis ‘twice’ + sextus ‘sixth’), the name given to the extra day inserted every fourth year by the Julian calendar, which was originally obtained by counting 24 February (the sixth day before the beginning of March) twice. Your daily dose of trivia |
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LEEP YEAR - ggauny@live.fr - 01-27-2017, 03:33 PM
RE: LEEP YEAR - JMB - 01-27-2017, 04:47 PM
RE: LEEP YEAR - grsbanks - 02-06-2017 03:08 PM
RE: LEEP YEAR - salvomic - 02-06-2017, 03:25 PM
RE: LEEP YEAR - ggauny@live.fr - 01-27-2017, 05:00 PM
RE: LEEP YEAR - JMB - 01-27-2017, 07:18 PM
RE: LEEP YEAR - ggauny@live.fr - 01-27-2017, 08:37 PM
RE: LEEP YEAR - KeithB - 01-27-2017, 08:56 PM
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