>>>>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.
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>>Looks like I was the only one to think it odd then. Thanks.
>
>The German day names are a bit weird - they're similar to English, except Wednesday is "Mittwoch" - mid-week

Over here we call Wednesday, "hump day" and Thursday is "Friday Jr."