•11:52 PM
The following is a link to a page with several possible theories.
My apologies for calling the clockmaker silly in my previous post. Obviously he wasn't the silly one, he was just following some silly tradition that began way before him.
Silliness as a tradition. Thats pretty funny.
But what is even more humorous than that is that there is a whole website devoted to answering the IIII vs. IV question. Its a very good thing that the internet was invented to help us access all this very important information immediately!
CLICK HERE
My apologies for calling the clockmaker silly in my previous post. Obviously he wasn't the silly one, he was just following some silly tradition that began way before him.
Silliness as a tradition. Thats pretty funny.
But what is even more humorous than that is that there is a whole website devoted to answering the IIII vs. IV question. Its a very good thing that the internet was invented to help us access all this very important information immediately!
CLICK HERE
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2 comments:
That was really interesting - and no I am not being sarcastic. I just thought they made a mistake. Now I know. :)
That was a really interesting post, I had fun with it.
I hate clocks with roman numerals but I hate the ones with only some numbers more!