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

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In article <45l8o2$j4a@bbcnews.rd.bbc.co.uk>,
Alan Roberts <alanr@rd.bbc.co.uk> wrote:
>Bernie Adalem (badalem@tetherless.net) wrote:
>:
>: Actually Gilbert, most of them are names of ancient mythological
>: gods and goddesses of the germanic/celtic/latin world, which was
>: very confused because they tried to identify each others' deities
>: with their own based on attributes.
>:
>: Sun and Moon were deities, as were
>: Tues / german Dienster
>: Wednes / which planet was that again?
>: Thurs (Thor)/ Donner
>: Freya
>: Saturn
>:
>
>Wednesday comes from Wotan, not a planet.
>

Wednesday comes from Odin. In French it's Mercredi(sp?), ie Mercury

Kevin

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