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Apr 15Liked by Ken Grace

Dual calendars seem tricky today, but the almanacs of that time handled it easily, and also handled the dual New Year, which was Jan 1 for some purposes and Mar 25 for others.

Here's a 1750 almanac that shows how it was done.

https://books.google.com/books?id=tUYsAAAAMAAJ

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As a Dutch speaker, I had to look up "morgen", but you are absolutely right.: https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dagwand

"Morgen" is also our perfectly normal word for morning, as in "goedemorgen!", and it also means "tomorrow", which causes less confusion than you might think.

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