Re: !0-day week (WAS: The English/French counting system (WAS: number systemsfromconlangs))
| From: | Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, September 17, 2003, 20:11 |
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On Wed, Sep 17, 2003 at 08:49:35PM +0100, Ray Brown wrote:
> In any case, the 10-day week doesn't seem to have been popular among the
> ordinary working people & peasants who found their working week lengthened
> & were quite glad, I believe, to revert to the 7-day week - thus Boney won
> even more supporters :)
"Boney"?
"BONEY"?!
You're just lucky he's not around to see that, buddy!
Shortsighted of the workers, anyway. A 7-workday week with a 3-day weekend
works out to an extra day off every 70 days compared to our 5-workday week with
a 2-day weekend. In the large, they were better off under the other
system, even if it meant going longer between weekends. :)
-Mark
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