Okay, so here I am just breezing through the news on AOL this morning, and they have this little piece of fluff about a full worm moon that happens only once a year. So I click on it, and they start talking about the moon’s cycle is 29.5 days, etc., but says nothing about why it is a worm moon! :dubious:
Someone please explain?
The Worm Moon is one of the names for the full moon in March (the other is Maple Sugar Moon).
Oddly enough, it’s actually because of worms.
Do I get an award for the two responses to my question being a simulpost? 
Thank you both for your answers, this helps clear it up quite a bit!
Another name for it is The Rabbit Moon. We see the equinox moon at a slightly different angle, and the “left eyebrow” of the moon’s “face” forms the ears of a sitting rabbit. Perhaps the Easter Bunny character came from the appearance of this spring moon.
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Modern grammarians consider the use of the word “enough” in phrases such as this, superfluous. The phrase(s) lose no clarity in meaning if they simply stop at “Oddly, bla bla bla…”, “Interestingly, bla bla bla…”, “Strangely, bla bla bla…”, etc. I do believe the subject has been addressed in these pages before. I will post a link if I find one.
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So what’s wrong with superfluous words? They add flavor to language. I note that where you have
you could have ommitted “the word”, and kept the same meaning.
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Not to mention that:
could have done quite well without the superfluous “simply”. What’s that called when one makes the same mistake one is trying to correct another on?
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Chronos and Q.E.D.
Both of the two of you are, rightly enough, correct, and I am simply superfluously redundant.
Oops, almost missed that one: A preposition is a bad word to end a sentence with. 
Glad you said that, ** RedDawgEsq**, or I’d have been forced to point out that “I do believe” doesn’t need “do” in it.
[sub]You’re Ok in my book, my friend[/sub]
You got me on that one. Heh.
An honest critique of
The phrase(s) lose no clarity in meaning if they simply stop at "Oddly, bla bla bla… might conclude that the more egregious error is including “in meaning”, which could have been omitted with no consequence.
I be done now.
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Not only do I detest grammer (ya’ll hear me? I ain’t gonna use it! ) but you all hijacked my thread about moons with it!:eek: :eek:
No hard feelings though