this post was submitted on 23 Jun 2023

2 points (62.5% liked)

General Discussion

12053 readers

7 users here now

Welcome to Lemmy.World General!

This is a community for general discussion where you can get your bearings in the fediverse. Discuss topics & ask questions that don't seem to fit in any other community, or don't have an active community yet.

🪆 About Lemmy World

🧭 Finding Communities

Feel free to ask here or over in: !lemmy411@lemmy.ca!

Also keep an eye on:

For more involved tools to find communities to join: check out Lemmyverse!

💬 Additional Discussion Focused Communities:

!actual_discussion@lemmy.ca - Note this is for more serious discussions.
!casualconversation@lemm.ee - The opposite of the above, for more laidback chat!
!letstalkaboutgames@feddit.uk - Into video games? Here's a place to discuss them!
!movies@lemm.ee - Watched a movie and wanna talk to others about it? Here's a place to do so!
!politicaldiscussion@lemmy.world - Want to talk politics apart from political news? Here's a community for that!

Rules

Remember, Lemmy World rules also apply here.

0. See: Rules for Users.

No bigotry: including racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, or xenophobia.
Be respectful. Everyone should feel welcome here.
Be thoughtful and helpful: even with ‘silly’ questions. The world won’t be made better by dismissive comments to others on Lemmy.
Link posts should include some context/opinion in the body text when the title is unaltered, or be titled to encourage discussion.
Posts concerning other instances' activity/decisions are better suited to !fediverse@lemmy.world or !lemmydrama@lemmy.world communities.
No Ads/Spamming.
No NSFW content.

founded 1 year ago

MODERATORS

Jessica@lemmy.world

ElectroVagrant@lemmy.world

fubo@lemmy.world

Wednesday is spelled dumb. It’s should be Wensday, or even Wendsday if we’re going for unnecessarily complicated English. (kbin.social)

submitted 1 year ago by nevernevermore@kbin.social to c/general@lemmy.world

15 comments fedilink hide all child comments

Wednesday is spelled dumb. It’s should be Wensday, or even Wendsday if we’re going for unnecessarily complicated English.

all 16 comments

sorted by: hot top controversial new old

[–] jerrimu@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

It’s Odin’s Day, no more of this heresy.

[+] Syldon@lemmy.one 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

[deleted]

[–] TeaHands@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Same this post is quite confusing. Where are people saying "Wendsday"? That one doesn't even make sense!

[–] kabe@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It's the typical pronunciation in UK/NZ/AUS, at least.

[–] s38b35M5@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

And US/CA/BZ

[–] TeaHands@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm English and can't even say it like that out loud lol, it's got too many Ds!

[–] kabe@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Really? Where exactly are you from?

I'm from southern England and I don't think I've ever heard anyone pronounce it with three syllables instead of two.

[–] TeaHands@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

North East, so in my case it's more like "wed'nsdeh", but my southern friends do three syllables too. Then again my southern friends are mostly posh so that might be why lol. Still can't figure out how you pronounce "dsd" but I'll be keeping an ear out in future southern interactions!

[–] kabe@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ah, I can see how being from the NE could account for that, but that's certainly not typical.

I can vouch for the fact that southerners of every social class pronounce it with two syllables, not three. Like this.

I also quickly checked on YouTube, and all the videos I saw for US pronunciation also use two.

[–] TeaHands@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Poor Wednesday, yet another unexpected casualty of the pronunciation wars.

Edit: that link even says it "Wensday" so I'm still at a loss for who is saying "Wendsday" haha, can't decide if I care enough to take this to UKCasual or not. Eh...who am I kidding I'm way too lazy for that.

[–] kabe@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Ah, I get what you mean now. I saw "wendsday" and read it as two syllables, basically the same as "wensday".

I think OP may have been going for a brief s sound between the two syllables - "wend-s-day", which could be three syllables if you take your time with it 😄

[–] kabe@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I think I get why you're confused because "wendsday" could be just another way to spell "wensday".

I think OP was going for a slight pause between the two syllables, like "wend-s-day", or something like that, which could be three syllables if you really take your time with it 😄

[–] tinselpar@feddit.nl 1 points 1 year ago

corect speling is fur loosehs, lemmy no wat yu tink

[–] Barbarian@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

Wōden will have his day, and you will thank him for having it.

[–] b3b4d3f4b0@lemmy.studio 1 points 1 year ago

Sun's day, Moon's day, Thew's day, Woden's day, Thor's day, Freya's day, Saturn's day

[–] Awa@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I'm guessing you hate the spelling of February too? 🙃