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 .
Might've evolved like that eventually if we hadn't stopped writing and type-setting by hand instead of using magical misspelling detection machines with strict spelling rules.
I mean, spellings of words change all the time. Hell, when I was in school you'd lose points on papers for spelling "doughnut" as "donut", but now that shorter version is concidered a correct spelling and is no longer tagged by spell check.
We as a society can literally will this spelling to be concidered correct through shear usage.
Well I thought the joke I assumed you were making was a good fit for your point, which I agree with btw. Spellcheck wouldn't catch "shear" anyway, that's the cutting one.
The see-through one has ee.
Why "sheer" is also the one you meant, meaning utter or complete, I don't know.
Are the rest of you out there really pronouncing the a in the days? Even in sentences? The only time I hear myself do it is if I'm listing them and paying attention. Might just be me though.
I'm not sure which section of SoCal you're referring to, but SD's about as South as one can get before TJ and everyone here seems to pronounce it "tūzdā" not "tūzdi". 😅🤷🏽♂️
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DredPyr8Roberts@lemmy.world · 30 pts · 297d
It comes from Wōdnesdæg, for the Germanic god Woden, aka Odin. I prefer Odin's Day myself.
apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 297d
Yeah it has changed over time so the question remains.
BluJay320@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 3 pts · 297d
Shouldn’t it be Wedensday, then?
Capricorn_Geriatric@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 296d
So odday, then?
CaptainBlagbird@lemmy.world · 22 pts · 297d
Why can't we just pronounce it Wodan's Day?
Mycatiskai@lemmy.ca · 16 pts · 297d
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 .
otter@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 8 pts · 297d
And Tyr's Day, just before Woden's each week.
reagansrottencorpse@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 297d
TIL
BananaPeal@sh.itjust.works · 11 pts · 297d
We should hold a vote to decide the spelling we can hold it next chewsday.
Ephera@lemmy.ml · 10 pts · 297d
My brain would also like to propose a new spelling+pronunciation for "remember": rember
ChaosMonkey@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 8 pts · 297d
Or at least streamline "forget": dismember
moistclump@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 297d
I disagree, I think it should be rememember.
hperrin@lemmy.ca · 9 pts · 296d
You’re gonna upset Woden with this kind of blasphemy.
ynthrepic@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 297d
When's day?
PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmy.ml · 4 pts · 297d
Every day.
Agent641@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 297d
Tween sunup and sundown
carotte@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 7 pts · 297d
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
NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone · 4 pts · 297d
What happened to wensday :1 and :2?
KSPAtlas@sopuli.xyz · 4 pts · 296d
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
Lumidaub@feddit.org · 6 pts · 297d
Might've evolved like that eventually if we hadn't stopped writing and type-setting by hand instead of using magical misspelling detection machines with strict spelling rules.
Midweek is superior anyway.
drcobaltjedi@programming.dev · 6 pts · 297d
I mean, spellings of words change all the time. Hell, when I was in school you'd lose points on papers for spelling "doughnut" as "donut", but now that shorter version is concidered a correct spelling and is no longer tagged by spell check.
We as a society can literally will this spelling to be concidered correct through shear usage.
Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 297d
Heehee concidered and shear. You literally made me go back and spellcheck your whole comment in case I'd missed more.
drcobaltjedi@programming.dev · 2 pts · 297d
I have never been a good speller, and this app nor my phones keyboard do spellchecking.
Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 296d
Well I thought the joke I assumed you were making was a good fit for your point, which I agree with btw. Spellcheck wouldn't catch "shear" anyway, that's the cutting one.
The see-through one has ee.
Why "sheer" is also the one you meant, meaning utter or complete, I don't know.
English.
Zerush@lemmy.ml · 6 pts · 297d
English is the imperial system of phonetics (well, French is worse)
https://youtube.com/shorts/Qxohw-X4wDM
AusatKeyboardPremi@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 296d
I am fine with “when’s day” as long as we rename the following day as “then’s day” instead of “their’s day”.
davidagain@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 297d
And though, through, thought, thorough, throughout should be thoh, throo, thort, thuruh, throoawt.
Funetic speling roolz. Or maybe not. Dunno.
AnnaFrankfurter@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 296d
No!!!!! That would make way too much sense for these language prudes..... \s
Obnomus@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 297d
What do u mean we can't spell it, I have been doing it my whole life.
UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 297d
Sounds good dood
mavu@discuss.tchncs.de · 2 pts · 297d
wy dont yu fall on yor sord? huh?
FreddiesLantern@leminal.space · 1 pts · 297d
And here I was about to propose a nightsday but whatever I’ll take it.
xia@lemmy.sdf.org · 1 pts · 292d
Maybe we should spell it: D-A-Y-O-F-W-I-N-D ?
NichEherVielleicht@feddit.org · 1 pts · 225d
But Iove spelling it wednesday, and everyone looks at me like I'm crazy, which I am...
Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works · -3 pts · 297d
Wensdy.
Are the rest of you out there really pronouncing the a in the days? Even in sentences? The only time I hear myself do it is if I'm listing them and paying attention. Might just be me though.
otter@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 4 pts · 297d
Yes? "Day" is not pronounced "dee" AFAIK.
Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 297d
When I say "day" or "today" I pronounce it fully, but when saying the names in conversation, it's more like "I'll see you Tuesdy at noon."
Judging by reactions, it's just, maybe SoCal? Or maybe just me.
otter@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 296d
I'm not sure which section of SoCal you're referring to, but SD's about as South as one can get before TJ and everyone here seems to pronounce it "tūzdā" not "tūzdi". 😅🤷🏽♂️
unique_hemp@discuss.tchncs.de · 0 pts · 297d
I think a lot of Brits pronounce it that way
ordnance_qf_17_pounder@reddthat.com · 3 pts · 297d
It is probably accent dependent. Where I live people pronounce it like "weddinsday"