Re: U2 has it

["Patricia M. Godfrey" priscamg@xxxxxxxx]

Carl Distefano wrote:
> after that -- they called it the "last year of confusion" -- except
> that for a while they were adding a leap day every three years
> instead of every four. Whoops.


Ah, yes. I came across that when I was researching the Old
Style/New Style discrepancies for my family history (and of
course, i wrestled with them for years when I worked on
encyclopedias: the history department had careful notes for
calendar conversion and Slavonic transliteration, but the art and
 music departments went their own merry way, and had to be
reminded that we had a style for this.)
> Incidentally, you can read the "RFC" for the Gregorian calendar --
> the papal bull Inter Gravissimas -- in three languages, including
> the original Latin (marred by an illiterate spelling error in the
> page headers), here:
> http://tinyurl.com/intergravissimas

>
Thanks, Carl, I'll look at that when I get a chance. The spelling
error may be a matter of a faulty OCR program not being
corrected. On the other hand, I've found errors in publications
of the Vatican Polyglot Pres (whom NO ONE claims is infallible):
Deus where grmmmar calls for Deum, and an oggi (Italian) in place
of Latin Omnes.

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Patricia M. Godfrey
priscamg@xxxxxxxx