It comes from Wōdnesdæg, for the Germanic god Woden, aka Odin. I prefer Odin’s Day myself.
Yeah it has changed over time so the question remains.
So odday, then?
Why can’t we just pronounce it Wodan’s Day?
People look at me funny when I say it that way. They notice less when I say Thor’s-day or Moonday and Frijjaday. Obviously there has been no notice taken at all when I say Sun-day .
And Tyr’s Day, just before Woden’s each week.
TIL
We should hold a vote to decide the spelling we can hold it next chewsday.
My brain would also like to propose a new spelling+pronunciation for “remember”: rember
I disagree, I think it should be rememember.
Or at least streamline “forget”: dismember
You’re gonna upset Woden with this kind of blasphemy.
When’s day?
Every day.
Tween sunup and sundown
Might’ve evolved like that eventually if we hadn’t stopped writing and type-setting by hand instead of using magical misspelling detection machines with strict spelling rules.
Midweek is superior anyway.
I mean, spellings of words change all the time. Hell, when I was in school you’d lose points on papers for spelling “doughnut” as “donut”, but now that shorter version is concidered a correct spelling and is no longer tagged by spell check.
We as a society can literally will this spelling to be concidered correct through shear usage.
Heehee concidered and shear. You literally made me go back and spellcheck your whole comment in case I’d missed more.
I have never been a good speller, and this app nor my phones keyboard do spellchecking.
Well I thought the joke I assumed you were making was a good fit for your point, which I agree with btw. Spellcheck wouldn’t catch “shear” anyway, that’s the cutting one.
The see-through one has ee.
Why “sheer” is also the one you meant, meaning utter or complete, I don’t know.
English.
I am fine with “when’s day” as long as we rename the following day as “then’s day” instead of “their’s day”.
And though, through, thought, thorough, throughout should be thoh, throo, thort, thuruh, throoawt.
Funetic speling roolz. Or maybe not. Dunno.
No!!! That would make way too much sense for these language prudes… \s
English is the imperial system of phonetics (well, French is worse)
Sounds good dood
Maybe we should spell it: D-A-Y-O-F-W-I-N-D ?
wy dont yu fall on yor sord? huh?
What do u mean we can’t spell it, I have been doing it my whole life.
