WIST Quotations https://wist.info Wish I'd Said That! Wed, 10 Jun 2026 02:36:25 +0000 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://wist.info/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/little-w-little-box-60x60.jpg months – WIST Quotations https://wist.info 32 32 43606282 Grafton, Richard -- Abridgement of the Chronicles of Englande, Vol. 8 (1562) https://wist.info/grafton-richard/33184/ https://wist.info/grafton-richard/33184/#respond Mon, 04 Apr 2016 13:36:45 +0000 Dave http://wist.info/?p=33184 Thirty days hath November,
April, June, and September,
February hath xxviii alone,
And all the rest have xxxi.

Grafton - thirty days hath november - wist_info quote


Richard Grafton (c. 1511-1572) English printer
Abridgement of the Chronicles of Englande, Vol. 8 (1562)

Noted as "A rule to knowe how many dayes every moneth in the yeare hath." The oldest known version of this mnemonic (in Latin) dates back to at 1488. See here for other examples. ]]> https://wist.info/grafton-richard/33184/feed/ 0 33184