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What was the original idea of our calendar? And did every month have 8 weeks or so? Were weeks longer?
There were ten months. Notice that September, October, November, and December all start with number prefixes ending at 10?
Well a few Roman bad boys decided to insert themselves in the middle of the year (July and August) and blew that idea to shit and we've never adjusted since.
And the reason for only 10 months before that - the earlier Romans didn't even bother to keep count during the winter. From the end of December it was just 'i dunno?' until the head priest decided it was time for a new year.