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

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In article <45jjn6$3gg@milo.freenet.vancouver.bc.ca>
gilbert@opus.freenet.vancouver.bc.ca (Gilbert Aubin) writes:
> Actually,both versions are in use. In some European languages names of
> the days are notderived from names of planets,as they are mostly in
> English (Monday - Moon-day, Sunday obvious, Saturday - Saturn- day etc)

Three out of seven doesn't count as "mostly". The other four days of
the week in English are named after Teutonic gods.

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