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From: rjw@ptsfc.UUCP (Rod Williams)
Newsgroups: net.nlang
Subject: Re: Days of the week (esp. Saturday)
Message-ID: <489@ptsfc.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 9-Dec-85 18:14:55 EST
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Posted: Mon Dec  9 18:14:55 1985
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Reply-To: rjw@ptsfc.UUCP (Rod Williams)
Organization: Pacific Bell
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>          ...and today English, the Celtic languages of the British
>Isles, and Dutch are the only European languages which retain the
>astrological name for Saturday, as also for Sunday, along with
>German, Danish, and some others.

 Not quite...true, the Irish Gaelic for Saturday is Satharn, but
 Sunday is Domhnach (the lord's day) just like the Romance languages.
 Christianity came to Ireland, in the person of none other than
 St. Patrick, in the mid-5th Century - quite a bit later than
 mainland Europe and Britain.
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