Sorry to dissappoint. :o) I wasn't trying to cover the world, I was responding to Terry's 'Well, our days are....' so it was pointed mostly at that with a little bit more thrown in...


>>Recently I've read conflicting accounts:
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>>http://www.pantheon.org/miscellaneous/origin_days.html
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>Restricted to a few languages of the West, ignoring the whole rest of the world.
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>>http://www.webexhibits.org/calendars/week.html
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>Better... a bit, as it includes Russian. It also assumes that non-believers never rest (probably in solidarity with the commissars, who would lead you to believe you can recognize the enemy by red eyes, because "the enemy never sleeps").
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>>http://www.ac.wwu.edu/~stephan/Astronomy/7day.html
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>Somewhat better. I still have no clue as to how days of the week are named in Asian, African and American American languages. World is larger than that.
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>BTW, in Slavic languages and Hungarian (which seems to have borrowed Wednesday to Saturday and the recipe for Tuesday), Tuesday is derived from 2^nd, Thursday is "four-er", Friday is "five-er", which makes Thursday the effective middle day of the week. But the word for Wednesday, sreda-sereda-szerda actually means "middle". Go figure.