Where do the names of the days come from? : The History of the Calendar 

Thank you for the excellent suggestion -- we've tried a bit of merch along those lines in the past, but frankly haven't had the time to set it up properly or even explore all the options. We'd really like to have stuff like this available -- and you're right, as the topics/videos grow more complex, a 'hard copy' of all the connections becomes more desirable. We'll try to put it higher on our to-do list, but I'm not sure when we'll manage to get to it. Also love the calendar idea!

I'd buy those

I know it's been two years, but we've got a poster of this available finally! And of many (though not all, yet) of our videos. You can look at what's available here: www.redbubble.com/shop/ap/97859517

@@Alliterative I'll buy those too! I love the poster idea for reference!

@@Alliterative yay!!!!

Happy new year! Thank you!

Thank you! I’m glad you enjoy the videos. That’s an interesting suggestion, to highlight the words; we’ll have to think about how/if we can do that.

Thank you!

Thank you! And thank you for watching!

It was a close thing! We hoped to have it out before Christmas, but it just took so much time to produce... and thanks, again, happy New Year to you! :)

Like peshach, passover...

@@melissafarrugia9531 Thanks. What language is peshach? Hebrew?

Good idea! We’ll put it on the list. Thanks!

A while since, I commented on one of your videos citing an early use of the word "blizzard" in Dodie Smith's "101 Dalmatians,(1956) , it having been noted as a recent import word from America . As much for your own collective fun as my own edification ,I anticipate your delving into this etymology, Cheers! ( Obligatory apologies for my Yorkshire isms )

Old post but will answer: calorie comes from early 19th Cent. French by Nicolas Clément, who borrowed from Latin calor 'heat', so it effectively meant 'a unit of heat'. Which makes sense because calories are something that you burn; it's a unit of energy.

@@tylere.8436 The question was when not where did it come from.

The video was kinda supposed to be finished sooner... ;)

On your second point: It's indeed very interesting, I don't know if living beings in other solar systems would have the need to track time. I wonder since when we humans do it. Is it since we settled down and started to grow our own crops? We had to know how much time had passed so that it's easier to know when the next crop would be ready. But before that, I don't really know.

Menses is not slang, it's a straight lexical borrowing(loanword): menses (n.) - "monthly discharge of blood from the uterus," 1590s, from Latin menses, plural of mensis "month" -Online Etymology Dictionary

From en.wiktionary.org/wiki/first : Etymology 1 From Middle English first, furst, ferst, fyrst, from Old English fyrst, fyrest (“first, foremost, principal, chief, original”), from Proto-Germanic *furistaz (“foremost, first”), superlative of Proto-Germanic *fur, *fura, *furi (“before”), from Proto-Indo-European *per-, *pero- (“forward, beyond, around”), equivalent to fore + -est. Cognate with North Frisian foarste (“first”), Dutch voorste (“foremost, first”), German Fürst (“chief, prince”, literally “first (born)”), Swedish första (“first”), Norwegian Nynorsk fyrst (“first”), Icelandic fyrstur (“first”).

The short answer is no; that was a 19th century invention/guess. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C4%92ostre?wprov=sfti1

Perhaps, but we have no (or very little) writing to document any such calendar.

They did. 😉

@@1stAmbientGrl i ment keeping the 1st of the year in march ending the year in February

@@FrankAnzalone They did do it that way for a long time afaik, before switching to what we have now

@@FrankAnzalone I know. I was teasing, hence the winky-face. ☺

I Don't Know, It Does Make More Sense To Have Winter Entirely At The End Of The Year Rather Than Split In Half, And That Way September Through December Wouils Be Named Properly.

I’m not sure if there’s something wrong, but it also might be that sometimes our animation software doesn’t run smoothly when it’s got lots and lots of words in the animation. So that might be the inconsistency you’re seeing. Sorry about that.

Makes sense. This was a pretty big diagram to work with this ep.

As the video makes clear, I think, the calendar is a human construction, not a numerical absolute, with an arbitrary beginning. We think of decades as running 0-10, so that’s the meaningful division of time. In my opinion. :)

The First Decade Couldn't Be 1-10 As That's Only 9 Years!

rate eightx Check your math. I used all ten fingers as I counted. :-)

rate eightx Years 1-10, exclusive. When you simply subtracted 1 from 10, that assumes that year 1 has already elapsed (i.e. it calculates the difference between Dec. 31, 1, and Dec. 31, 10), which is why you got nine years. I’m talking about years 1-10, inclusive, which would be from the very beginning of year 1 to the very end of year 10, which is ten years-a full decade. I hope that clears up my meaning.

I'm sorry if i'm a year late to this but yeah. Alliterative Is right here because since calendars are just human constructions this question just doesn't matter. And about the no year 0 thing yes there is no year 0 in AD. But listen to what I just said here. In AD. This is due to the fact that when the AD system was made and was in the process of replacing other dating systems used back in the middle ages, they didn't have a 0 to work with back then so they didn't include it in. But now since we do have a 0 to work with we can use something called astronomical year numbering (or just AYN for short). To simplify the astronomical year numbering system is a modification of the Anno Domini system of numbering years where it closely follows the decimal integers of our current math and counting system. This results in a year 0 being used and the years being labeled as + or - instead of AD or BC in the Anno Domini system (or CE and BCE if you're using the common era system which is just the AD system but being named into something else). How this works is that you add a year 0 before the year which is called the year +1 in this (it's the same as AD 1). Then with the added in year 0 you rename every single year before that year by subtracting one number from the year since year 0 in this corresponds to the year 1 BC in AD (that means the year 2 BC in AD is actually the year -1 in AYN). It won't matter anyways since no one even recorded living in a BC year back then and just used something else to count their years instead and that all dates in this time were retroactively added into the calendar when the AD system was made during the middle ages. Anyways to continue this until the time before recorded history and since it's at the point where we can't really record dates anymore it's better to ditch this system and use something else instead like BP (or before present) or the human era (or HE). All years in AD are kept the same however so there will be no trouble when recording recent events. The only difference is that it uses a + symbol instead of labeling it as AD. So the year AD 2021 in AD is actually the year +2021 in AYN. And that's it. That's how the AYN system works. This is the system I use and since it's only a modification of the AD system I would rather use this one more than the AD system if I need to except when I'm learing history of course. But that's what it just is a modification of the AD system. So it shouldn't really count as the AD system and instead look at it like it's own thing and not as a replacement of it. For more information about the astronomical year numbering system I recommend checking these three links that I sent out. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astronomical_year_numbering / eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/SEhelp/dates.html / world.clndr.org/calendars/astronomical-year-numbering/