There's thirty days in September...
May. 31st, 2020 10:34 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
conulyApril, June, and November. Okay, so I guess the day after May 30 is May 31! Whew, glad that's settled.
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Poll #24104 Days of the month
Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 143
What method do you use to remember which months have 31 days?
View Answers
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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Date: 2020-05-28 07:28 pm (UTC)By now I mostly just know which month has how many days, but if I'm ever in doubt, I check back to the trick.
Before I learnt the knuckle trick, someone had tried to teach me the rhyme but it didn't stick because I couldn't remember which months went in the rhyme.
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Date: 2020-05-28 07:34 pm (UTC)