I hadn't noticed that! I wonder if there's a possibility of one system of naming is international, while the other is local?

I'd say the fancy naming is probably local while our "march" is international.

Maybe the Telmarines brought with them the names of the months which might be adopted by others, and the Narnians had their own names prior, hence the reason Peter uses them?

This always bugged me!! I have no theories whatsoever (for once). I wonder which month Greenroof is...

elecktrum on ff (not affiliated with TLC) has a whole Narnian naming system with equivalents, so I hear.

Yeah, I know; lotsa people use her naming system. 😉

I vote for Norelle's suggestion. 🙂

*hasn't read the books in about a year* Guess who didn't notice this discrepancy? 😛

I think it would be most likely (and super cool) if the Narnians had their own month-names and calendar (which so happens to coincide with our world's calendar - 12 months per year, so on); although I'm wondering how quickly the Pevensies would have caught on to that and gotten used to using it - I would think that it was them who introduced the Gregorian calendar month names by accident (even though I'm pretty sure that they would have made an honest effort to remember the Narnian calendar).

😛

But then, let's not forget that Narnia started out with rulers from Earth, Frank and Helen. 😛 If anybody, they're probably the ones who introduced the Narnians to the names of the months as we have them in our world, not to mention other various things that would have taken anybody a long time to invent without the help of some otherworldly technological knowledge and ideas. 😛 *coughcough at Mrs. Beaver's sewing machine*

This is true, but considering that language and names can change over the course of hundreds of years, it be might possible other names could have been adopted and reverted back after they were reintroduced by the Telamrines. This is just theory, of course.

Considering Frank and Helen came from our world, too, I've always thought (always since I began thinking about it) it had existed side by side from the beginning, or evolved side by side from the beginning, anyway. I think the natural-world names must be more commonly used, in Narnia at least, because they would be more obvious to the Beasts and other beings; who's August again? 😉 It's also quite possible that Telmarines, having also come from Spare Oom and not being in contact with nature and Beasts and whatnot, would use the Latin/English calendar more, or even exclusively.

That's true.

It also has to do with the Czech calendar: we're one of the fewer European nations that use their own names for months, and they are often related to the natural world (rather than some deities or whatnot), just like the names in Lithuanian and Finnish (the other two languages that have it their own way I'm aware of). I'm sure Lewis, being a philologist, was aware of that and that was why he did it that way.