It comes from Wōdnesdæg, for the Germanic god Woden, aka Odin. I prefer Odin's Day myself.
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Yeah it has changed over time so the question remains.
Shouldn’t it be Wedensday, then?
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
Or at least streamline "forget": dismember
I disagree, I think it should be rememember.
You’re gonna upset Woden with this kind of blasphemy.
you can, and you should
english has no authority that regulates the language, it’s up to us to do the spelling reforms
i spell it wensday :3
What happened to wensday :1 and :2?
English tends to be very etymological with its spelling but i support people simplifying it tbh
Not sáing ðat ú kant mák úr ón ryting sistem for Inglix end úz it
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.
English is the imperial system of phonetics (well, French is worse)
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.
because in english you have "silent letters" letters that you write but dont say.
they are unnecessary, please improve the language.
the language is fine, the spelling just needs updating. which is easy, we just pick a dialect of english and base it on that.
which dialect? well, how about indian english. that seems fair.
NO U
No!!!!! That would make way too much sense for these language prudes..... \s
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.
Sounds good dood
And here I was about to propose a nightsday but whatever I’ll take it.
But Iove spelling it wednesday, and everyone looks at me like I'm crazy, which I am...
Maybe we should spell it: D-A-Y-O-F-W-I-N-D ?
Wensdy.
Are the rest of you out there really pronouncing the a in the days? Even in sentences? The only time I hear myself do it is if I'm listing them and paying attention. Might just be me though.
Yes? "Day" is not pronounced "dee" AFAIK.
When I say "day" or "today" I pronounce it fully, but when saying the names in conversation, it's more like "I'll see you Tuesdy at noon."
Judging by reactions, it's just, maybe SoCal? Or maybe just me.
I'm not sure which section of SoCal you're referring to, but SD's about as South as one can get before TJ and everyone here seems to pronounce it "tūzdā" not "tūzdi". 😅🤷🏽♂️
I think a lot of Brits pronounce it that way
It is probably accent dependent. Where I live people pronounce it like "weddinsday"