Frazz by Jef Mallett for February 01, 2017
January 31, 2017
February 02, 2017
Transcript:
Girl: The problem with February is anything due at the end of the month is due two or three days sooner. Though the good thing is there's nothing else to do. Which is more like a slightly less bad thing. Frazz: I thought it was shortened because people got tired of enunciating it by the 25th.
nosirrom almost 8 years ago
They shortened February so that winter would go by faster.
Bilan almost 8 years ago
And they don’t even give you a discount on the monthly passes.
Varnes almost 8 years ago
Frazz, you know as well as I do, that nobody ‘round these parts pronounces it the way it is spelt! It’s “Feb-uary” here in Michigan..Or sometimes Feberary………..Nisirrom, thanks..I didn’t know that…
whiteheron almost 8 years ago
My brother from a different mother Hated February. Hated it. Hated it.
So in the humor of life, he died in February last year. I bet he really hates it now.
Richard S Russell Premium Member almost 8 years ago
My understanding was that this too is due to Julius and Augustus Caesar, who swiped a couple of days from February so that the months named for them wouldn’t be shorter than, say, January or March.
RDCollins almost 8 years ago
Proper pronunciation of the name of the month is feb-ru-ary, not the more common feb-you-ary. I don’t think most people get tired of saying it correctly; they get tired of being corrected when they mispronounce it.
well-i-never almost 8 years ago
Well, I’ve demoted it to Febuary. Alert the media.
Hippogriff almost 8 years ago
In Canada, the first r gets pronounced, as does the second syllable in Wednesday.
Stephen Gilberg almost 8 years ago
Try “sriracha.”
Night-Gaunt49[Bozo is Boffo] almost 8 years ago
Vouchers for charter schools are there to suck money from the public schools to pad the “capitalist” machines. DeVos is grossly ignorant of that which she hates. If you can get someone in school they will not be. I don’t see any of your Charter Schools helping, just the much maligned public schools in your morbid fantasies.