Wendnesday

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• TootSweet@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Why can’t we just pronounce it “wed-nes-day”?

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  • baronvonj@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    We need house by Wed-nes-day or no deal!
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  • CaptainBlagbird@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Why can’t we just pronounce it Wodan’s Day?

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  • kayzeekayzee@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I do!

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• artifex@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Because it’s Odin’s day (sometimes spelled Woedin’s day)

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  • Jake_Farm@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    So it would be pronounced Voedin’s day?

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• airgapped@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Be the change you want to see in the world. Languages are meant to be fluid evolving constructs anyway.

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• jqubed@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Wendsday

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  • chisel@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Whenstay

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  • zero_spelled_with_an_ecks@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Whenzdae

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• uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Because the god Wotan would get mad.

  And that’s a god you don’t want mad at you.

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• Tikiporch@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Is it Feb-ruary or Feb-uary? Because I prefer -uary, and what is this “ru”?

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  • GandalftheBlack@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    We started pronouncing it Febuary instead of February to match January. From Wiktionary:
    The pronunciation of the first r as /j/ has come about by dissimilation and analogy with January. In the UK pronunciation /ˈfɛb.ɹi/ (*Febry) the sequence /ɹə.ɹi/ in /ˈfɛb.ɹə.ɹi/ (*Febrery) is simplified to /ɹi/ by haplology.

    Also, we should bring back the Old English solmōnaþ (“mud month”).

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    • hakase@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      This type of analogy is specifically called series contamination, where items that frequently are pronounced together in a series affect each other. Also happened in proto-Germanic with the ‘n’ in ten, from the ‘n’ in nine (and in the opposite direction of Latin novem and decem; cf. nonus “ninth” to see the original ‘n’).

      Also probably at least partially responsible for the common American pronunciation of Wednesday, based on Tuesday.

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  • TurtleTourParty@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I pronounce it feb-u-wary

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• LodeMike@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  TIL I have no idea how to spell months

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