It’s from Tyr, the Norse god. Originally closer to Tyr’s day, hence the odd spelling relative to the pronunciation.
Likewise we have (W)Odin’s Day, Thor’s Day, Frida’s Day, and Saturn-Day. Of course there’s also the Sun’s day and the Moon’s day.
Submitted 6 days ago by TootSweet@lemmy.world to showerthoughts@lemmy.world
It’s from Tyr, the Norse god. Originally closer to Tyr’s day, hence the odd spelling relative to the pronunciation.
Likewise we have (W)Odin’s Day, Thor’s Day, Frida’s Day, and Saturn-Day. Of course there’s also the Sun’s day and the Moon’s day.
Unfortunately zero-indexed Mondays are the only sane way to live life…
You beat me to it by mere moments
Noneday, one-day, twosday, thirdsday, wait.
Let’s ignore that and continue on to foursday, fivesday, sixesday, sunday.
What if you use the duodecimal system?
I don’t know what library books have to do with any of this.
I get my calendars from the library.
And 22/2/2022 was a Twosday!
Tuesday is the third day of the week.
Exactly. Day 2. ;)
I cannot read :333
Should be one day, ten day, eleven day, hundred day, hundred one day, hundred ten day, and hundred eleven day
hogmomma@lemmy.world 6 days ago
Feel like this post was just a reason to say one- and zero-index.
TootSweet@lemmy.world 6 days ago
…
maybe…
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 6 days ago
Fuck it, we’re two-indexing now.
WhatGodIsMadeOf@feddit.org 6 days ago
Meet in the quad.