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  • Also Tuesday, it comes after Friday except on even numbered years it's after odd numbered Mondays. On leap years it starts halfway through Wednesdays.

  • In Denmark we have a saying: "When there's two Thursdays in a week", which is used when someone asks you something like "when can we have this thing?" or "when will you do that thing?" or "when will you give me a million dollars?"

    So, Thursday.

  • The days of the week come from the Sun (Sunday), Moon (Monday), and classic 5 planets (Tuesday = Mars, Wednesday = Mercury, Thursday = Jupiter, Friday = Venus, Saturday = Saturn). This makes more sense in some other languages, for example Spanish: marte / martes, mercurio / miercoles. Saturn = Saturday though is almost obvious.

    So if there were another day in the week, I have no choice but to either:

    • name it Earthday
    • name it after Uranus, the next discovered planet

    This gives us precedent to create up to 10 days per week by including all 8 planets plus sun & moon.

    • the days in english are from old norse, no?

      • Sun's day
      • Moon's day
      • Tyr's day
      • Wodin's day
      • Thor's day
      • Freyr's day
      • Saturn's day (okay that ones roman)
      • Yes but if I remember correctly, each of those Norse gods are correlated with the Roman gods who share names with planets, which is how you can draw a connection between the planets and weekdays for English. The same connection exists in many languages across the world including Spanish, French, Hindi, Japanese.

  • Calcday, other days of the week are named after gods, so I would add some scientific touch: Calculus day

    • Sunday and Mo(o)nday are named after celestial bodies. Is astronomy not scientific enough for you?

      • Fair point, then the new weekday should be called Jeday.

      • The gods that the weekdays are named after also have associated planets, so really every day is named after a celestial body already.
        Ex: Saturday is obviously Saturn Day, Thursday is Thor's Day, with Thor being the equivalent of the Roman Jupiter, so Thursday is indirectly Jupiter Day, etc.

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