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Of course we can’t even agree if it’s the third or the fourth day

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Most of my life I wondered why it’s called “middle of the week” when actually Thursday’s the day with an equal number of days in a week coming before and after. I often thought maybe weekend’s subtracted. Only in my late 20s I learned that there are places where the first day of the week is Sunday lol

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The funny part is the green countries in this map don’t start the week on a sunday. I guess they used to and the name stayed

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4 points

Neither does the week start on Sundays in the blue countries

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I’m swiss and I always assumed its because of the workweek being Monday to Friday. But only a few decades ago Saturday was pretty mich a workday as well, so that probably isnt it

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5 points

Index 0 vs Index 1.

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More directly, we can’t agree if Sunday or Monday is the first day. IMO Sunday is the first day. Calendars look better with the weekends acting like bookends.

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11 points

Estonia is incorrect as well, in Estonian Wednesday would be “kolmapäev”, which translates to “third day”

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Thanks!

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In Basque language the third day of the week is called asteazkena, “the last day” (aste=week azken=last) because the ancient Basque weeks only had three days. So astelehena= first day of the week = Monday. Asteartea=middle day = Thursday.

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5 points

In Kosovo the majority is Albanian so they would say Merkure.

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For Northern Africa it’s Fourth day too (in Arabic)

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