Happy Birthday Leap Day Babies

[p.s.]

Posted: 2/24/08 at 12:53am

Happy Birthday to all bissextiles.



p.s. I searched. The last leap year thread was more than three years ago.

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 2/24/08 at 12:55am

Is it the 29th already?

[p.s.]

Posted: 2/24/08 at 1:15am

Is it the 29th already?

No.
I know that leap day babies are those born on February 29th, but it is not too early to start.

The word bissextile refers to the 24th: In the Roman calendar, the sixth day before the ‘Calends of March’ (February 24th, counting back from the beginning of March) was repeated (or continued for an additional 24 hours) in a leap year. The term is based on Latin sextus - ‘six’ - and bis - ‘twice’ - and means ‘twice the sixth day’.

p.s. Today is the 24th.

[son_of_a_gunn_25]

Posted: 2/24/08 at 12:38pm

We were discussing how to say when your last birthday was in the Spanish course I am taking. One of the women told him it had been four years since her last birthday in Spanish and he went on for a minute or so telling her she was wrong. He didn't catch on that she was a leap year baby for a bit. It was pretty funny.

[p.s.]

Posted: 2/28/08 at 4:41pm

Is it the 29th already?

Almost now.



p.s. Happy Birthday Leaplings!

[mominator]

Posted: 2/28/08 at 7:13pm

Do we have any posters that are leap babies?