Languages Make No Sense: Months

[xander]

To be fair, you can legitimately blame the Romans for that.

[umloucoae]

*julius ceasar and octavius augustus entered the chat*

[ericherde]

March used to be the first month. When the calendar was shifted to start the year in January, the names were kept.

[HeisenbergFam]

Bro's explanation is so good it made him question more things

[lemonbug]

"je me disais, pourquoi pas" 😂😂

[minatashiranui]

😂 As a native french I never realized this incongruity 😂

[hannah_]

At first, I didn’t know there were English subtitles and I was literally trying hard to follow the French ones 😅

[arabhero]

You’ll be pleased to know that the man responsible for messing up the naming convention and adding needless month names was promptly stabbed for his actions…and other stuff too but he was stabbed.

[niccolom]

That's because March was the first month of the year in ancient times.

That's why February only has 28 days. It used to be the last month of the year.

September was indeed the seventh month when the months were named.

I thought that's commonsense.

[dreimaldie]

J'aime bien quand tu fais des vidéos en français. Je ne parle ni anglais ni français nativement, mais je dois définitivement écouter plus du français !😅

[HellDogas]

Same in English, it's those pesky Romans to blame, they've decided that months would be named for Gods (March) and emperors (Augustus, Julius).

In my language, Lithuanian, we name them according to processes in Nature - August=Rugpjūtis=The month of cutting rye

[emmanuels]

Turns out universal speaks perfectly French...

[Dirkus]

Today I learned how to spell "Huh?" in French.

[ViddeBrorsson]

Edit: After people replying to this comment, I think this is the correct explanation. Thank you to anyone who corrected me.

This is because they changed the calendar and made January start the year instead of March. All later months were therefore pushed forward by two months. Because of this, September, October, November and December was pushed forward and therefore their names don’t align with when they occur.

[conteslunaires]

Je me sens tellement bête de ne l'avoir jamais remarquer avant 😭

[ItzJonah.]

I never thought about this but it blew my mind

[TheAmmorna]

Le hein à la fin est just magnifique. Il est confus à fond 😂😂

[qazarqazar]

Aaah, Loic se met au français, ça fait plaisir 🙂

[lizv]

"Now I bet they're not even in the same order!" "What! No, that would not make any sense, what kind of fool do you take me for?"

[loloverlord]

When Julius Caesar modified the roman calendar, he put two more month into it, in the middle, not in the end.
And this is why you have "july", or "juillet" in French: it's the month of Julius Caesar.
Later in the history of the Empire, the next summer month was named "august" or "août" in French, because of Octavus Augustus.

EDIT: my comment is historically inaccurate and some people put very interesting criticism in the replies, you should read them.