Re: Why not 13 months? (Was La Systeme Metrique)

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In article <45mcr3$g89@perl.eng.umd.edu>,
coolhand@Glue.umd.edu (Kevin Anthony Scaldeferri) writes:

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>>Wednesday comes from Wotan, not a planet.
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>Wednesday comes from Odin. In French it's Mercredi(sp?), ie Mercury

Aren't Wotan and Odin (and Wodin) all the same ?

Paul

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Paul Menage        Magdalene College, Cambridge      pbm1001@cam.ac.uk

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