There's thirty days in September...

[conuly]

April, June, and November. Okay, so I guess the day after May 30 is May 31! Whew, glad that's settled.

Poll #24104 Days of the month

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 143

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What method do you use to remember which months have 31 days?

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That rhyme
88 (61.5%)

Another English language mnemonic
2 (1.4%)

The knuckle trick
32 (22.4%)

I don't, I look at a calendar
18 (12.6%)

Some mnemonic in another language
0 (0.0%)

IDK, I just do
20 (14.0%)

Other
5 (3.5%)

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Comments

[hamsterwoman]

I'm watching the poll results with interest, because I remember back in high school, when we were learning the names of months in Italian, my Italian teacher explained the knuckle trick, and only I and another girl who had been born in Europe knew it -- none of the other kids in our class (IIRC white American, East Asian, Filipino, and I think Latino) knew what she was talking about. I hadn't realized it wasn't more widely used that that!

Meanwhile, I don't find the English mnemonic at all useful and mostly have to back-derive it from knowing which months have 30 days via the knuckle trick :P

[ioplokon]

Learned the knuckle trick in grade school, which seems to have had the same demographics as your hs. No connection to Europe afaik, but we were right on the border, so maybe from Mexico??

Thank god for that trick tho bc generally I'm like, "30 days hath September. As for the rest, I can't remember!"

[hamsterwoman]

"30 days hath September. As for the rest, I can't remember!"

Me too, pretty much XD (the months don't go in order in the poem! and a whole bunch of different, wrong months could scan to the same rhythm! It's just not very useful to me...

Interesting that you learned the knuckle in elementary school! I have now deputized my daughter to poll her SoCal friends to see if they're more familiar with it.