Meaghan’s Blog

The countdown begins!

Story-wise, though, I have come up with fourteen new (or not-so new) months which are from twenty-eight days to thirty-four days, making a total of four hundred and thirty-four days in their year. What I did was use the calculator to multiply fourteen by thirty-one, which would be the default amount of days in a month, to get how many days in the year. Then I thought up names for each month and if I wanted one to have thirty-four days, the next on the list (they were out of order) would have twenty-eight. That way, it would vary how long each month was and I wouldn't have to try really hard to keep it at four hundred and thirty-four when trying to do this. I probably just made no sense.

Here is a list of the names of the months in order, how many days they have, how to say them and  some will have little tidbits.

Palean (pah-lay-uhn) 29 days

Zentas (zen-tahz) 31

Julia (just like the name) 32

Moa (moh-ah) 34

Memour (mehm-or) 30

Maius (may-us) 34 (in Latin  it's Majus, and the J is pronounced like a Y. For romans this was, of course, May.)

Filia (feel-i-ah) 33 (it means "daughter" in Latin)

Nenatas (nen-nah-tahs) 29

Lea (lay) 32

Raya (ray-ah) 30

Pyxis (pik-sis) 33 (a constellation in the sky, part of the ship Argo, which is some sort of legend. It's the compass and you can find it near Orion and Canis Major, and the other parts of the ship are Vela, Carina and Puppis.)

Gemod (jeh-moh) 28

Junius (joo-nee-us) 28 (June in Latin and on the Roman calendar)

Rosentis (roh-zen-tis) 31

There you have it!  Yesterday I made apple pie, which was very good. The filling sort of turned to apple sauce, but it was delicious. And I remembered to add the sugar this time.

I need to figure out when to have the cold season, too, which I have decided will have winter. I just don't know what months to have it on.