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    10 days ago

    The days of the week come from the Sun (Sunday), Moon (Monday), and classic 5 planets (Tuesday = Mars, Wednesday = Mercury, Thursday = Jupiter, Friday = Venus, Saturday = Saturn). This makes more sense in some other languages, for example Spanish: marte / martes, mercurio / miercoles. Saturn = Saturday though is almost obvious.

    So if there were another day in the week, I have no choice but to either:

    • name it Earthday
    • name it after Uranus, the next discovered planet

    This gives us precedent to create up to 10 days per week by including all 8 planets plus sun & moon.

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      10 days ago

      the days in english are from old norse, no?

      • Sun’s day
      • Moon’s day
      • Tyr’s day
      • Wodin’s day
      • Thor’s day
      • Freyr’s day
      • Saturn’s day (okay that ones roman)
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        10 days ago

        Yes but if I remember correctly, each of those Norse gods are correlated with the Roman gods who share names with planets, which is how you can draw a connection between the planets and weekdays for English. The same connection exists in many languages across the world including Spanish, French, Hindi, Japanese.