Month names collection / metastudy

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Then, kinda weirdly, the next time that you see octembre is a flurry of them in newspapers between 1889 and 1940. I don't know what to make of that.

While probably meaningless, at least in the context of the VMS, these are curious in their own way. I would assume that c. 1900 hits are mostly misprints, particularly since several of them have a line break in the word where the typesetter might have thought of september/november. The reason that they are mostly in the late 19th century to 1940 era is probably simply due to the number newspapers etc available which might contain errors. This is the heyday of print culture in Western Europe and long enough ago in terms of copyright for the bnf to put them online. Additionally, the way typesetting worked in that period might have played a role.