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• Checkuary, n.: The thirteenth month of the year.
  Begins New Year's Day and ends when a person stops absentmindedly writing the old year on his checks....
• Decemba, n: The 12th month of the year. erra, n: A mistake.
  faa, n: To, from, or at considerable distance. Linde...
• Any day can be the beginning of a new year.
• The man who sees, on New Year's day, Mount Fuji, a hawk, and an eggplant is forever blessed.
  -- Old Japanese proverb...
• An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in.
  A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves....
• New Year's Eve is the time of year when a man most feels his age, and his wife most often reminds him to act it.
  -- Webster's Unafraid Dictionary...