Not the numbers, obviously. The words.
‘…Excepting February alone
Which has twenty-eight days clear
And twenty-nine days each leap year.’
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Ah. Well, I didn’t learn either version when I was taught it at school, so I am pretty agnostic about that.
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I can assure you that Gus has the correct version.
Miss Montague gets a big red cross at the bottom of her work.
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…and you get my grateful thanks, TFM, topped up with premium gin 
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Huh. All you modern lot.
Thirty dayes hath Nouember,
Aprill, Iune and September;
Twentie and eyght hath February alone,
And all the rest thirty and one,
But in the leape you must adde one.
But I prefer the one I got given, which is from Mother Goose:
Thirty days hath September,
April, June, and November;
All the rest have thirty-one –
Except February, alone,
Which has four and twenty-four,
And every fourth year, one day more.
The chiming of the "four"s is pleasing.
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Modern? Huh!
Are you calling both Miss Forbes who was already ancient (at least 35) when I was at primary school and my grandfather (b.1895) modern?
Gus is a bit modern though, I concede.
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Not wanting to shock you or anything, but I can even dance the Charleston.
Although I would much rather not.
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Ooh! Thoroughly Modern, that is.
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Remember that I was taught in Norn Iron where the teacher was always correct and any other version was dissenting and therefore not even looked at as clearly you could not understand the teacher and her pearls of wisdom
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Oof
Chuffing cold out there.
Baby carrots were 13p in Tiny Tesco, so soup will be made.
Carinthia. xx
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That’s pretty well how I learned it, too:
Which hath but twenty-eight days clear
And twenty-nine in each leap year
The other ones seem extremely verbose - and metrically dodgy. I do like the Mother Goose version, though.
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My version went:
‘excepting February …
that’s all I need to know, I can’t be bothered to remember the rest’.
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‘Excepting February clear, which has 29 days each Leap Year’ was the version most used when I was learning/hearing it.
Candles/Quattro fired-up.
I was tidying/sorting the (empty) cardboard boxes in the garage earlier & stepped onnan plastic bag & slipped.
‘Twisted me blood’, didn’t fall, & am ok, but everything hurts.
Sigh
Carinthia. xx
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Gentle hugs, Carinthia xx
Morning, all.
Soo xx
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Medicinals forra Chatelaine 
Please take it gently today, Darling
Gxx
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Seconded,and more hugs for Carinthia.
Look what my clever baby willow has done…
The heavy rain has made some of them look a bit scruffy but I still think they’re beautiful.
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Ulster fry components in chafing dishes
Eggs you do yourself
Or not
Sympathies for a slipped Chatelaine
My contorted hazel is flowering lovely long grey tassels
And the alder we have growing wild are yellow with pollen
Only two conifers are deciduous alder and larch so I rather like both of them for bucking the trend
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Oooh, there’s a thought.
Another tree added to my wish list - at this rate I’ll soon own a forest.
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I love my contorted hazel
It has a rose I planted scrambling through it so in summer you get the interest of the rose while the hazel looks gorgeous all other seasons
I love my forest though the eucalyptus is a bit big for its place
A good 1 40 foot tall and a spread of about twenty yards in one way and 25 in the other
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