[Defiant]

Yes. Wednesday is derived from the Anglo-Saxons, who worshipped Odin. It is Oden’s Day. Don’t know how the pronunciation got so different. Probably because of those lazy Britons who were all over the island.

[ClearCase_guy]

Alternate naming for the Norse god is Woden. So, it’s Woden’s day.

[bagster]

Yes. Wednesday is derived from the Anglo-Saxons, who worshipped Odin. It is Oden’s Day. Don’t know how the pronunciation got so different. Probably because of those lazy Britons who were all over the island.

Odin = Wodin

The god of wisdom, war, art, culture, and the dead, and the supreme deity and creator of the cosmos and humans. [Old Norse Ōdhinn; see wet- in Indo-European roots.]

[ichabod1]

Probably the way ‘eleven’ came from ‘leave one’ and twelve from ‘two left’.