Thirty days hath September

Cultural  

1. The first line of a popular rhyme for remembering the number of days in the months of the year:

   Thirty days hath September,

   April, June, and November;

   All the rest have thirty-one,

   February stands alone.

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Example Sentences

I raised my hand at this point and said, “Mrs. Watson, I know mine already. Thirty days hath September, April, June, and November. All the rest have thirty-one, except February. It has twenty-eight, we find, unless it’s leap year: Then it has twenty-nine.”

From Literature

The days of the month 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.

From Project Gutenberg

She did not even think it permissible to say: "Thirty days hath September, April, June, and November."

From Project Gutenberg

"Multiplication is vexation," a painful reality to schoolboys, was found a few years ago in a manuscript dated 1570; and the memorial lines, "Thirty days hath September," occur in the Return from Parnassus, an old play printed in 1606.

From Project Gutenberg

Others held to the astronomical year and adopted a system of conventional months, such that twelve of them would just make up a year, as is done to this day in our own calendar, whose months of arbitrary length we are compelled to remember by some such jingle as the following: "Thirty days hath September, April, June, and November; All the rest have thirty-one Save February, Which alone hath twenty-eight, Till leap year gives it twenty-nine."

From Project Gutenberg