Welcome to December 6, 2024 Open Thread

 

🤍Winter in the Mt. Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest.🤍

    Guess who didn't write anything at all on Thursday. Jenae and Raven must wait for another day to reveal their newest adventures. Nevertheless, I wish you the best December 6th ever. I hope it's one for the books, in the nicest way possible.

    If you've ever wondered about stuff that happened on December 6th, here are a few. 

    Also, if you've ever wondered about the name of this month, here is some information from Etymologyonline.

December (n.)
"twelfth and last (by modern reckoning) month of the calendar, the month of the winter solstice," late Old English, from Old French decembre, from Latin December, from decem "ten" (from PIE root *dekm- "ten"); tenth month of the old Roman calendar, which began with March.

The -ber in four Latin month names is probably from -bris, an adjectival suffix. Tucker thinks that the first five months were named for their positions in the agricultural cycle, and "after the gathering in of the crops, the months were merely numbered."
If the word contains an element related to mensis, we must assume a *decemo-membris (from *-mensris). October must then be by analogy from a false division Sep-tem-ber &c. Perhaps, however, from *de-cem(o)-mr-is, i.e. "forming the tenth part or division," from *mer- ..., while October = *octuo-mr-is. [T.G. Tucker, "Etymological Dictionary of Latin"]