By Curtis Honeycutt | Grammar Guy: Why is February spelled like that?
Iâm going to lean on my three years of high school Latin to answer this question. I really wanted to make sure I was profiled as a giant nerd during my formative teen years, so, I took a class where we got extra credit for wearing a homemade toga to school for an entire day. Letâs just say I got my extra credit. Picture this: Youâre a Roman citizen in the 8th century B.C. For hundreds of years prior to your time, your pagan ancestors celebrated a crazy ritual called Lupercalia, a wild fertility festival in which local priests smeared with goatsâ blood would run naked throu...