for which months of the year can you not immediately call to mind their respective numerological designations (1-12)?

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June and July (6 and 7) get me sometimes. I think this is because I was out of school for the summer and not doing so much writing and homework and labeling things with dates.

― Aaron A., Tuesday, 21 June 2005 14:17 (twenty years ago)

in those crucial formative years

― Aaron A., Tuesday, 21 June 2005 14:19 (twenty years ago)

March/April/May.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Tuesday, 21 June 2005 14:21 (twenty years ago)

March, April, Ventôse, Pluviôse

― M. White (Miguelito), Tuesday, 21 June 2005 14:36 (twenty years ago)

March through October, sadly.

― Paul outta Santa Cruz (Paul in Santa Cruz), Tuesday, 21 June 2005 15:11 (twenty years ago)

Everything after April and up until December. :(

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 21 June 2005 15:13 (twenty years ago)

Cunegonde; Thermidor

― Rock Hardy (Rock Hardy), Tuesday, 21 June 2005 15:28 (twenty years ago)

september and october.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Tuesday, 21 June 2005 15:30 (twenty years ago)

and very occasionally april and may.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Tuesday, 21 June 2005 15:30 (twenty years ago)

I can't not do any of them. I understand what it must be like (I sometimes have to think for a millisecond to remember 24-hour-clock versions of times between 8pm and midnight, and mentally recite parts of the alphabet) but month-numbers never make me pause.

― Eyeball Kicks (Eyeball Kicks), Tuesday, 21 June 2005 15:33 (twenty years ago)

In kindergarten, my teacher posted on a bulletin board twelve chocolate birthday cakes arranged three across and four down. Since then, it doesn't take me even half a second to know what month was six or nine months ago or what month is six or nine months from now. I can tell you which months have thirty or thirty-one days without looking at my knuckles. I know which months don't have R's. I know that the first letters of July, August, September, October, and November spells out JASON. It's not that I just know this stuff. I mean, the shit is INGRAINED INTO MY BEING.

Miss Linda was a very effective teacher.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Tuesday, 21 June 2005 18:06 (twenty years ago)

Just August.

― Cressida Breem (neruokruokruokne?), Tuesday, 21 June 2005 19:24 (twenty years ago)

All of them. It's horrible.

― Mickey (modestmickey), Tuesday, 21 June 2005 19:36 (twenty years ago)

i'm good with january, february & december. probably november. after that, i always have to count. pathetic.

― kelsey (kelstarry), Tuesday, 21 June 2005 19:45 (twenty years ago)

kelsey let's start a support group.

― Mickey (modestmickey), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 02:55 (twenty years ago)

Sometimes August/September. Dunno why.

I always have to mutter "30 days has september april june and november" to work the days out tho.

― Trayce (trayce), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 03:02 (twenty years ago)

i know them pretty well. i sometimes can't remember if may has 30 or 31 days, though.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 03:30 (twenty years ago)

31. I'm much better with this since starting a job in which I have to input dates to get reports spewed out at me.

― Liz :x (Liz :x), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 08:24 (twenty years ago)

September, October, November and December are the 7th, 8th, 9th and 10th months in my head. LOOK AT THE NAMES. (And yes I do know about the historical calendar vagaries which created this illusion.)

― Archel (Archel), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 08:45 (twenty years ago)

I don't have a problem with this, but for years our maths teacher insisted we write the date DD/MM/YY so it's been drilled into me. I have to say the rhyme to remember which ones have 30 or 31 days though.

― Mädchen (Madchen), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 09:23 (twenty years ago)

You say that as if it's the wrong way, Mädchen!

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 09:29 (twenty years ago)

It is the only way! (Apart from the thing with the knuckles but I never quite got that.)

― Archel (Archel), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 09:31 (twenty years ago)

archel otm about the sep, oct, nov, dec old calendar mix up. i don't think this will ever leave me.

i also struggle with the june/july thing, i've put lots of orders through this week for july already.

― Ste (Fuzzy), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 09:37 (twenty years ago)

Oh no, I meant DD/MM/YY. The rhyme is okay, but I'm never entirely sure, I always have to check it afterwards.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 09:40 (twenty years ago)

I get days of the week muddled much more frequently than months. Until about an hour ago I thought it was Tuesday.

― Archel (Archel), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 09:41 (twenty years ago)

you mean it isn't? fuuuck!

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 09:50 (twenty years ago)

Maths: 22/06/05
All other subjects: Wednesday, 22nd June, 2005 (double underlined in red biro)

― Mädchen (Madchen), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 11:16 (twenty years ago)

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