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To: Graybeard58
The name comes from the Middle English Wednes dei, which is from Old English Wōdnesdæg, meaning the day of the English god Woden (Wodan), a god in Anglo-Saxon England until about the 7th century. Wēdnes dæg is like the Old Norse Oðinsdagr ("Odin's day"), which is an early translation of the Latin dies Mercurii ("Mercury's day"), and reflects the widespread association of Woden with Mercury going back to Tacitus.
14 posted on 12/04/2009 5:28:58 PM PST by votemout
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To: votemout

Thanks. I didn’t even know that I didn’t know that.


23 posted on 12/04/2009 5:59:34 PM PST by VoiceOfBruck (She introduced me to so many new things... pasteurized milk, sheets, monotheism...)
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To: votemout

Interesting; in Spanish Wednesday is “miercoles”.


30 posted on 12/04/2009 7:21:37 PM PST by Carlos Martillo II (Guernica was a work of art...and I don't mean the painting.)
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