Comments on: Monthly Knuckles

By: Ashley

Ashley — Wed, 16 May 2007 23:50:55 +0000

The way I learned the rhyme was:

Thirty days hath September
April, June, and November.
All the rest have thirty one,
But the second month alone,
To which we twenty-eight assign,
and in Leap Year twenty-nine.

I fyou actually know this little ditty, it’s much faster than counting knuckles!

By: Natalie Downe » Blog Archive » links for 2007-02-10

Natalie Downe » Blog Archive » links for 2007-02-10 — Sun, 11 Feb 2007 00:07:36 +0000

[...] Monthly Knuckles » TipNut.com Ever have problems remembering which months have 30 or 31 days? use your knuckles! I use the little rhyme, but this method seams much less prone to error! (tags: lifehacks memory dyslexic) [...]

By: jason wu

jason wu — Tue, 06 Feb 2007 00:21:01 +0000

[...] http://tipnut.com/monthly-knuckles/ 1st knuckle: Jan (31 days) Groove: Feb (28 or 30 days) 2nd knuckle: March (31 days) Groove: April (30 days) 3rd Knuckle: May (31 days) Groove: June (30 days) 4th Knuckle: July (31 days) [...]

By: Ganesh Kulkarni

Ganesh Kulkarni — Fri, 02 Feb 2007 08:02:39 +0000

We in India are using this tip for ages. I learnt it when I learnt to say ‘aa’ from my grandmother.
I wonder why I never thought of it worth putting on web!
Nice job.

By: R Bailey

R Bailey — Fri, 02 Feb 2007 07:04:22 +0000

C. Spencer Beggs, that’s very similar to the one I learned from my (English) grandmother here in Australia –

Thirty days hath September
April, June and November
All the rest have thirty-one
Excepting February, all alone
Which has twenty-eight days clear,
And twenty-nine each leap year.

This one keeps the rhyming structure so I find it very easy to remember.

By: C. Spencer Beggs

C. Spencer Beggs — Thu, 01 Feb 2007 23:28:22 +0000

I just repeat this little nursery rhyme my mom taught me:

Thirty day hath September
April, June and November
All the rest have thirty-one
Except for February
Which has twenty-eight

I guess the whole rhyme scheme breaks down at the end, but we always did it last part in a cheesy Vaudeville voice for effect. You can also say:

Except for February
Which hath but twenty-eight, in fine,
‘Til leap year makes it twenty-nine

By: Jason

Jason — Thu, 01 Feb 2007 12:25:23 +0000

That is also a very old Chinese method on teaching kids to figure out longer or shorter months, almost every kid knows how to do that from 3 years old.

By: TipNut

TipNut — Thu, 01 Feb 2007 08:38:33 +0000

ITA Rob, that IS trippy!

Thanks for the comments everyone, it is something so many of us grew up with–and the rest of us had no clue. I was taught this from a friend when I was in my mid-30’s (not as old as you Bob lol).

By: Rob O.

Rob O. — Thu, 01 Feb 2007 08:16:32 +0000

Okay, this is just trippy! Only yesterday, I was mentioning to a co-worker that I had never learned the little poem to remember which months have 31 days so he taught me this previously unheard-of knuckle trick.

Now it just so happenes to be circulating all over the Internet less than 24 hours later. Kinduva bizarre coincidence…

By: kookie

kookie — Wed, 31 Jan 2007 21:37:57 +0000

I have always used it. My mom had taught me this and I think most of the kids at school in India also knew it.