This week's theme: words related to calendar.

menology (mi-NOL-uh-jee) noun

   A calendar, especially one commemorating specific people.

[From Modern Latin menologium, from Late Greek menologion, from meno-
(month) + -logy (account). It's the same meno that appears in menopause.]

-Anu Garg (words at wordsmith.org)

  "The state Department of Archives and History's 1994 calendar, available
   beginning this month, is the first in a series of menologies to honor
   Mississippi's writers."
   Jack Elliott Jr.; Mississippi Writers Calendar a Talent Roll Call:
   The Times-Picayune (New Orleans, Louisiana); Nov 28, 1993.

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