PICKENS COUNTY — It just doesn’t make any sense. A septangle is a figure with seven sides. A septave is a seven-tone musical scale. A septuagenarian is a person who is between 70 and 79 years old — so why in the world is September the ninth month?
Well, blame the Romans.
September, which stems from the Latin root “septem,” meaning seven, actually was the seventh of the calendar originally…