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Thirty Days Hath September

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ages 5 to 8nursery rhymesread aloudabout 14 seconds aloud

The old mnemonic for remembering how many days each month holds, still doing its job after centuries of use. Not much to dance to, but a genuinely useful one to have by heart.

From Mother Goose / Nursery Rhymes (traditional). See the whole collection.

Thirty days hath September,
April, June, and November;
February has twenty-eight alone,
All the rest have thirty-one,
Excepting leap-year, that's the time
When February's days are twenty-nine.

Public domain. Text from The Real Mother Goose (Blanche Fisher Wright, 1916), via Project Gutenberg. View the source edition

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