>>>>Because I am a relentless pursuer of useless information...
>>>>
>>>>http://www.answerbag.com/q_view/2488
>>>>
>>>>But, I found this excerpt interesting:
>>>>
>>>>"Except for the Sabbath, Jews simply number their week days.
>>>>A related method is partially used in Portuguese and Russian."
>>>>
>>>>I never knew that. They have no names for days other than Sunday?
>>>
>>>Well our days are simply named after Saxon and pagan gods, each with the suffix "day". NY et al name their avenues with numbers. No big surprise then.
>>
>>Recently I've read conflicting accounts:
>>
>>http://www.pantheon.org/miscellaneous/origin_days.html
>>http://www.webexhibits.org/calendars/week.html
>>http://www.ac.wwu.edu/~stephan/Astronomy/7day.html
>
>Well they don't argue that the days aren't named after pagan gods. After all, the planet names are Roman gods anyway.

Was there really a god named Uranus? Maybe the Romans had more of a sense of humor than I've been giving them credit for.