YUROP

1158 readers

3 users here now

A laid back community for good news, pictures and general discussions among people living in Europe.

Other European communities

[email protected]

Other casual communities:

Language communities

Cities

Countries

founded 8 months ago

MODERATORS

[email protected]

qaz

Origin of the third day of the week the different European languages (files.catbox.moe)

submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

18 comments fedilink hide all child comments

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] [email protected] 25 points 3 months ago (6 children)

Of course we can't even agree if it's the third or the fourth day

[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Most of my life I wondered why it's called "middle of the week" when actually Thursday's the day with an equal number of days in a week coming before and after. I often thought maybe weekend's subtracted. Only in my late 20s I learned that there are places where the first day of the week is Sunday lol

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

The funny part is the green countries in this map don't start the week on a sunday. I guess they used to and the name stayed

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

Neither does the week start on Sundays in the blue countries

load more comments (1 replies)

load more comments (3 replies)