Thirty days hath September is a traditional English mnemonic rhyme, of which many variants are commonly used in English-speaking countries to remember the lengths of the months in the Julian and Gregorian calendars. Here is one version of the rhyme attributed to Mother Goose:
- Thirty days hath September,
- April, June, and November.
- All the rest have thirty-one,
- Excepting February alone,
- And that has twenty-eight days clear,
- And twenty-nine in each leap year.
Other sources list the Mother Goose version differently:
- 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.
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