Page "French Republican Calendar" Paragraph 36

In Britain, a contemporary wit mocked the Republican Calendar by calling the months: Wheezy, Sneezy and Freezy ; Slippy, Drippy and Nippy ; Showery, Flowery and Bowery ; Wheaty, Heaty and Sweety.

The Scottish historian Thomas Carlyle suggested somewhat more serious English names in his 1837 work The French Revolution: A History, namely Vintagearious, Fogarious, Frostarious, Snowous, Rainous, Windous, Buddal, Floweral, Meadowal, Reapidor, Heatidor, and Fruitidor.

Like the French originals, they suggest a meaning related to the season but are neologisms, rather than preexisting words.