The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #73399   Message #1272911
Posted By: Malcolm Douglas
15-Sep-04 - 07:49 PM
Thread Name: Origins: Thirty days hath September
Subject: RE: Origins: Thirty days hath September
The earliest English language example quoted by the Opies and rhyming "one" and "alone" (see reference above) is of 1577, though they refer to a "similar" text of 1555. It isn't obvious from the reference whether they mean the English or Latin in that last.