February – It Almost Wasn’t a Month
Yup, we are going back to February, there was more you needed to know. If you are looking for a few words on Valentine’s Day, there, you just got them. I have decided to spare us all the pain and agony of reading another article about the love day, hard pass. Instead let’s focus on February itself. As you may or may not know, February is the second month of the year, it also has an “r” which makes no sense to me. I mean it’s like Wednesday with its rogue “dn” messing with everything we know about English. Now let’s get to the real meat and potatoes of the whole thing – where does the word February even come from? Well, here it is: February was named after the Latin word februum, which means purification because the month was a time for purification – don’t ask me, I didn’t come up with this. This is actually quite interesting because the Old English word for February is Solmonath. Why is this interesting? Well for starters Solmonath is...