Nagle Notes: Everyday Words

Hello people of the future,

When we say "midnight" it's inferred it would be at the middle of the night (or at least close to it). But what about "noon"? Midday would make more sense but why has the lexicon of noon taken its place.

Noon comes from the Latin, nona hora, which means ninth hour. Since they started their clocks at 6am (or time) it's began as a way to denote the time we know as 3pm. And then given how words shift and change over centuries it eventually combined with midday to give us the familiar 12 o'clock we know.

Most words over time change and evolve, etymology is a fun rabbit hole but another Latin corruption I enjoy is the names of the months: September, October, November, and December. Sept, Oct, Nov, and Dec mean  7, 8, 9, and 10 yet they are the 9th, 10th, 11th, and 12th months in our calendar. When new years shifted from March to January (around 1750), it ruined a third of the calendar's names. Maybe some new names should be in order.

Onwards,
Nagle

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