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Originally Posted by Arragonis
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So you're claiming Wikipedia as the ultimate authority? Seriously?
Seriously, the fact that Wikipedia repeats the 2nd full moon nonsense just shows how far the rot has spread. The people writing the article need to get out in the fresh air more. I suppose it's analogous to a linguistic back-formation: they take the expression "once in a blue moon", which is derived from a natural but rare phenomenon, and because they've never seen this rare thing themselves, assume that it can't be so and try to fill the gap with a very shaky hypothesis.
Indeed, to the best of my recollection the 2nd full moon theory only surfaced in the last decade or two. Even the Wikipedia article you reference says it's modern crap:
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Widespread adoption of the definition of a "blue moon" as the second full moon in a month followed its use on the popular radio program StarDate on January 31, 1980.
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