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Wednesday to Windsday or Wensday.
Totally not me having problems spelling that word at 29.
What IS that D doing THERE?
Wait you don't pronounce the D? You just say wennesday?
Most people that say the d flip the n and d to wendsday
Its best
Whensday?
Or closer to the founding fathers' intent: Wotan's Day
Odinsday
Come to think of it, I just used the first version that came to mind.
After some more research from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odin
Wotan - High German
Odin - Norse
Wōden - Old English.
Wōden would be the correct origin for Wednesday, which is the source of the W and D.
Not sure how the "ō" got changed to an "e" though.
Wotan’s Day ain’t nothing to fuck with.