Art & Culture

FEB-RU-AR-Y!

Feb-yoo-ere or feb-roo-ere. Either pronunciation works fine, according to Webster and Google. Other months, like January, are named after Roman gods. So why wouldn’t February be known after the Roman god Februus? Instead, the word […]

Art & Culture

The madness of March

The last three days of March have a reputation for being stormy. Scottish folklore proposes that those three days were borrowed from April, so that March might extend his intemperate power. The Spanish story about […]