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Intercalary: Inserted out of the common order to preserve the equa

Intercalary: Inserted out of the common order to preserve the equation of time, as the twenty-ninth of February in a leap year is an intercalary day. – A Dictionary of the English Language by Robert Gordon Latham, founded on that of

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A strange amazing day that comes only once every four years… A day of temporal tune up! – Vera Nazarian

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The year of the sun consisteth of three hundred and sixty-five days and six hours, wanting eleven minutes; which six hours omitted, will, in time, deprave the compute: and this was the occasion of bissextile, or leap year. – Brown, quoted by Johnson

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For leap year comes naething but ance in the four. – Robert Shennan, “Leap Year”

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