To: lee martell
Funny, I never associated Viernes with Venus. I looked it up and you are right. I found it quite interesting looking at the Goddesses whom Friday is named after in Spanish and English...
Those Englishmen who chose to use the Norse "Frigg," the wife of Odin, rather than Venus to name the weekday made a serious blunder. Her name really fits:
Compare to Venus:
I'll never look at the planet Venus or the weekday Friday the same again. Thanks!
To: ProtectOurFreedom
In my ‘educated’ opinion:
Lady Frigg is what you call a “Brick House”.
Miss Venus is the blossoming flower of womanhood we all like to think of.
To: ProtectOurFreedom
So, Friday should be “hump day”?!
The temperature of Germany and England are very different from Rome. Italian frescoes highlight why global warming is good!
12 posted on
02/17/2019 10:07:58 AM PST by
outofsalt
(If history teaches us anything, it's that history rarely teaches us anything.)
To: ProtectOurFreedom
16 posted on
02/17/2019 10:28:51 AM PST by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
To: ProtectOurFreedom
The exception among the Romance languages is Portuguese. In Portuguese Friday is sexta-feira (the sixth day, starting from Sunday, but Sunday is domingo, the Lord's day). The Slavic languages along with Lithuanian and Latvian have a name for Friday based on the word for "five." Hungarian borrowed its name for Friday from a Slavic language.
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