It comes from Wōdnesdæg, for the Germanic god Woden, aka Odin. I prefer Odin’s Day myself.
Yeah it has changed over time so the question remains.
Shouldn’t it be Wedensday, then?
So odday, then?
Why can’t we just pronounce it Wodan’s Day?
People look at me funny when I say it that way. They notice less when I say Thor’s-day or Moonday and Frijjaday. Obviously there has been no notice taken at all when I say Sun-day .
And Tyr’s Day, just before Woden’s each week.
TIL
We should hold a vote to decide the spelling we can hold it next chewsday.
My brain would also like to propose a new spelling+pronunciation for “remember”: rember
Or at least streamline “forget”: dismember
I disagree, I think it should be rememember.
You’re gonna upset Woden with this kind of blasphemy.
you can, and you should
english has no authority that regulates the language, it’s up to us to do the spelling reforms
i spell it wensday :3
What happened to wensday :1 and :2?
English tends to be very etymological with its spelling but i support people simplifying it tbh
Not sáing ðat ú kant mák úr ón ryting sistem for Inglix end úz it
When’s day?
Every day.
Tween sunup and sundown
English is the imperial system of phonetics (well, French is worse)
I am fine with “when’s day” as long as we rename the following day as “then’s day” instead of “their’s day”.
And though, through, thought, thorough, throughout should be thoh, throo, thort, thuruh, throoawt.
Funetic speling roolz. Or maybe not. Dunno.
because in english you have “silent letters” letters that you write but dont say.
they are unnecessary, please improve the language.
NO U
the language is fine, the spelling just needs updating. which is easy, we just pick a dialect of english and base it on that.
which dialect? well, how about indian english. that seems fair.
wy dont yu fall on yor sord? huh?
What do u mean we can’t spell it, I have been doing it my whole life.
abolish having names for days, start calling them day1->day2 so on.
No!!! That would make way too much sense for these language prudes… \s
