At the end of February Hone prints the old memorandum of the months for fixing their lengths in the memory, ending with February and its twenty-eight days. He adds that 1824, a leap year, had given February five Sundays, which can only happen in a leap year that begins the month on a Sunday. The rhyme is still how most people remember the months.
Thirty Days Hath September
Printed under 28 February
Still kept
Thirty days hath September, April, June, and November
From Hone's Every-Day Book, vol. 1, col. 310. Read the original
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