1. The Babylonian months of Nisan, Sivan, Elul, Kislev, Tevet, Shevat, and Adar are used either on their own or alongside numbered months

2. Nisan (Abib), Sivan, Ab, Tishri (Ethanim), and Shebat regularly had 30 days each; Iyyar (Ziv), Tammuz, Elul, and Tebeth regularly had 29 days each.

3. Elman, The 28th day of Elul (page 94) Once again she had been stricken, beaten down, so violated that to give utterance to her feelings might have outshrilled all the Criers in hell.· An officer who proclaims the orders or directions of a court, or who gives public notice by loud proclamation, such as a town Crier.··brain