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[โ€“] [email protected] 17 points 2 years ago (1 children)

As a Scandinavian who wasn't familiar with Finish month names... Yeah, death month is a much more accurate name than November. Ugh.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Finnish month names are pretty damn descriptive. Before we had Yule Month we had Winter Month as December.