sed numbered fields don't start from parenthesis

[blind Pete]

Hi, 

I believe that the output from the following should be "Sep", not
"28th_Sep".  The result can be changed by adding a ".*" to the 
start of the search string, but I don't think that that should be 
necessary.  Removing the trailing ".*" also produces odd results.  

Using Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. 

$ echo 28th_September_2014 | sed "s/\(sep\).*/\1/i"
28th_Sep

$ sed --version
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$ 


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