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Özden Arıkan
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Hmm, I guess I got wedded on a Wednesday Oct 12, 2007

[No, I lied]

mediamatrix wrote:
And if your week started on Tuesday instead of Monday (as in Moneday), then I guess you'd have a mnemonic like "Thursday" sounds like "Third day".

And then "Friday" would be the "Fourth day", too.

What do you have in mind for Wednesday (day 2.5)?



But Hilary, thank you so much for this great tip:
Hilary Davies wrote:
"Tuesday" sounds like "TWOsday" (more or less, depending on your accent!), and it's the SECOND day of the week.


In fact, it's so simple and obvious that I feel silly I never thought of this before. Let me add my own mnemonic to it for Thursday, then. It is the 4th day, right? And four is "dört" in Turkish, pronounced almost exactly like the English "dirt", hence sounds similar to the "Thurs-" part of the day's name

[Edited at 2007-10-12 13:30]


 
KathyT
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Easy! Oct 12, 2007

mediamatrix wrote:
What do you have in mind for Wednesday (day 2.5)?


When you're too confused to remember what number day you're up to, it must be Whensday, errr, I mean Wednesday.

/end_badjoke


 
Özden Arıkan
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I loved it! Oct 12, 2007

No bad joke at all


KathyT wrote:

mediamatrix wrote:
What do you have in mind for Wednesday (day 2.5)?


When you're too confused to remember what number day you're up to, it must be Whensday, errr, I mean Wednesday.

/end_badjoke


 
mediamatrix (X)
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Yes, very droll ... Oct 12, 2007

Özden Arıkan wrote:

No bad joke at all


KathyT wrote:

mediamatrix wrote:
What do you have in mind for Wednesday (day 2.5)?


When you're too confused to remember what number day you're up to, it must be Whensday, errr, I mean Wednesday.

/end_badjoke


OK folks. Play-time's over . Back to work everyone!


 
JaneTranslates
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Don't want to rain on your parade, but... Oct 12, 2007

mediamatrix wrote:


OK folks. Play-time's over . Back to work everyone!


...if we must get back to the real world: for many of us, Tuesday is the third day of the week.


 
Hilary Davies Shelby
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ISO_8601 Oct 12, 2007

JaneTranslates wrote:

...if we must get back to the real world: for many of us, Tuesday is the third day of the week.


This is true for a lot of the US, certainly. Here in the EU, we even have an ISO which prescribes that the week starts on Monday

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Days_of_the_week
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8601

Perhaps I should have specified "second day of the WORKING week" (after MOANday)).


 
JaneTranslates
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TWOsday's OK with me! Oct 12, 2007

Hilary Davies wrote:


Perhaps I should have specified "second day of the WORKING week" (after MOANday)).


Yep, that would cover all of us--except that as a minister's wife, I also work on Sunday. MOANday morning is the one time I can sleep in!

Biblically: God rested on the seventh day (the Sabbath, Saturday) after a six-day workweek that began on Sunday; New Testament Christians met on the first day of the week, which was Sunday (and, again, a workday).

In my long-past, practically forgotten youth, all calendars (in the U.S.) had Sunday as the first day; when "weekend" calendars with Monday first came out, many saw it as an attack against Christianity. Eventually, we'll probably conform to the rest of the world. Or not!

As a confirmed user of mnemonics, I love this thread!


 
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