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yuriRO@lemmy.dbzer0.com to Memes@lemmy.mlEnglish · 7 days ago

Wendnesday

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Wendnesday

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yuriRO@lemmy.dbzer0.com to Memes@lemmy.mlEnglish · 7 days ago
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  • CaptainBlagbird@lemmy.world
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    Why can’t we just pronounce it Wodan’s Day?

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      People look at me funny when I say it that way. They notice less when I say Thor’s-day or Moonday and Frijjaday. Obviously there has been no notice taken at all when I say Sun-day .

      • Øπ3ŕ@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        And Tyr’s Day, just before Woden’s each week.

      • reagansrottencorpse@lemmy.ml
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        TIL

  • DredPyr8Roberts@lemmy.world
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    It comes from Wōdnesdæg, for the Germanic god Woden, aka Odin. I prefer Odin’s Day myself.

    • apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.world
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      Yeah it has changed over time so the question remains.

    • BluJay320@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      Shouldn’t it be Wedensday, then?

    • Capricorn_Geriatric@lemmy.world
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      So odday, then?

  • BananaPeal@sh.itjust.works
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    We should hold a vote to decide the spelling we can hold it next chewsday.

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    You’re gonna upset Woden with this kind of blasphemy.

  • Ephera@lemmy.ml
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    My brain would also like to propose a new spelling+pronunciation for “remember”: rember

    • ChaosMonkey@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      Or at least streamline “forget”: dismember

    • moistclump@lemmy.world
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      I disagree, I think it should be rememember.

  • Zerush@lemmy.ml
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    English is the imperial system of phonetics (well, French is worse)

    https://youtube.com/shorts/Qxohw-X4wDM

  • AusatKeyboardPremi@lemmy.world
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    I am fine with “when’s day” as long as we rename the following day as “then’s day” instead of “their’s day”.

  • Chloé 🥕@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    you can, and you should

    english has no authority that regulates the language, it’s up to us to do the spelling reforms

    i spell it wensday :3

    • KSP Atlas@sopuli.xyz
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      English tends to be very etymological with its spelling but i support people simplifying it tbh

      Not sáing ðat ú kant mák úr ón ryting sistem for Inglix end úz it

    • NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone
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      What happened to wensday :1 and :2?

  • ynthrepic@lemmy.world
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    When’s day?

    • PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmy.ml
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      Every day.

    • Agent641@lemmy.world
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      Tween sunup and sundown

  • Log in | Sign up@lemmy.world
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    And though, through, thought, thorough, throughout should be thoh, throo, thort, thuruh, throoawt.

    Funetic speling roolz. Or maybe not. Dunno.

  • GenderIsOpSec [she/her, kit/kit's]@hexbear.net
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    because in english you have “silent letters” letters that you write but dont say.

    they are unnecessary, please improve the language.

    • huf [he/him]@hexbear.net
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      the language is fine, the spelling just needs updating. which is easy, we just pick a dialect of english and base it on that.

      which dialect? well, how about indian english. that seems fair.

    • NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone
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      NO U

  • 小莱卡@lemmygrad.ml
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    abolish having names for days, start calling them day1->day2 so on.

  • Anna@lemmy.ml
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    No!!! That would make way too much sense for these language prudes… \s

  • UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml
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    Sounds good dood

  • obnomus@lemmy.ml
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    What do u mean we can’t spell it, I have been doing it my whole life.

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