What Day of the Week Is This?

Hi All,

Quickie-fun-silly educational post coming up...

How on earth did the names of the week get named? Interesting question - glad you asked!

Click here for the complete and thorough answer from our old friend, Wikipedia. There is a summary chart and there is interesting information on weekdays being named after planets from various historical traditions (Greco-Roman, Hindu, East Asia)...Names of the weeks in various languages also included.

Straight from the Encyclopedia Mythica is this link: Origin of the Names of the Days. This is a quick, concise summary in well, day-to-day format. No fuss, no muss as to how the names got that way.

Enjoy the day (ha - sorry, I had to get that very little bit of humor in...)

Stu

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