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Re: Why not 13 months? (Was La Systeme Metrique)
flower (q9422597@helios.usq.edu.au)
Sun, 22 Oct 1995 01:17:30 GMT
you got ir pretty much right.... french is even closer than spanish....
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flower
q9422597@zeus.usq.edu.au
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On 18 Oct 1995, Andrew Cooke wrote:
> In article <45md7g$gab@perl.eng.umd.edu>,
> Kevin Anthony Scaldeferri <coolhand@Glue.umd.edu> wrote:
> >Sunday Sun Sun works
> >Monday Moon Moon also works
> >Tues Mars ??
> >Weds Mercury Odin This one doesn't seems to
> >Thurs Jupiter Thor same
> >Fri Venus Frigga(?) I don't know
> >Sat Saturn ??
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> friday is named after the wife of odin, freia, if i remember
> correctly. something to do with norse mythology(?).
>
> tuesday is `martes' in spanish, which looks like mars. could
> the english be from the end of this?! friday in spanish is
> `viernes' which looks more like venus. wednesday is miercoles
> which checks with mercury. again, like friday, this seems to
> be connected with norse legends in english - was odin also
> called woden?
>
> andrew
>
> monday - lunes - moon
> tuesday - martes - mars
> wednedsay - miercoles - mercury
> thursday - jueves - ? (maybe jovian - jupiter)
> friday - viernes - venus
> saturday - sabado - saturn
> sunday - domino - looks like the catholic church got in here... :-)
>
> (are those all roman names for gods? spanish does have some
> greek words, but they tend to be unusual)
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