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I’m not sure how far our idiosyncratic month names traveled outside European cultures. For example, in Chinese and Korean, the months are simply called “month 1”, “month 2.” And so on.

Chinese even labels the days of the week as “day 1”, “day 2”, etc., except Sunday, which is “sky day.”

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