Re: A funny linguistic subway experience + some questions aboutnouns of days and months

> Semi-related anectote: One of my friends' German mother insists on
> saying "Sonnabend", a word I've never heard except from her. She claims
> it's northern German.
I was taught "Samstag" and "Sonnabend" as parallell forms in 7th grade...

Though I've never ever heard it from a German -- thus at least in Bayern,
Thüringen and Hessen "Samstag" is the mainly used form.

> Perhapts Samstag comes from French samedi, just Germanicised.
>
> --
> Robert
// Mikael Johansson