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From: rmt51@cas.org ()
Subject: Re: Polish month names
Message-ID: <1994Oct19.145249.29386@chemabs.uucp>
Sender: Rick Turkel (rmt51@cas.org)
Organization: Chemical Abstracts Service, Columbus, Ohio
Date: Wed, 19 Oct 1994 14:52:49 GMT
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In article <37sd7e$b8g@agate.berkeley.edu>,
Jacob  Lubliner <coby@euler.Berkeley.EDU> wrote:
>In article <37rkuh$23q@gordon.enea.se> sommar@enea.se
>(Erland Sommarskog) writes:
>>How come? Are there are any other European languages with any
>>deviations?
>
>The Serbocroatian case is interesting.  Both "Latin" and "Slavic"
>month names exist.  Serbs use the former, and Croats use the latter.
>Osvobodjenije, the panethnic Sarajevo paper, gives both forms.
>
>Coby

The strange thing here is that Polish listopad = November and Croatian
listopad = October.  Listopad means "the month when the leaves fall,"
and one would expect the leaves to fall earlier in Poland, which is
further north than Croatia.
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