Re: CHAT: Day & month names (was: CHAT: Easter & the Saxon Calendar(was:Passover/Easter))

On Sun, 30 Apr 2000 17:54:11 -0500 Daniel Seriff <microtonal@...>
writes:
> > What caused Friday to be considered the first day of the week?
> In Islam, Friday is the day that prayers are offered. Just like many
> Christians
> consider Sunday as the first day of the week (thus our calendar
> arrangements,
> with Sunday being the first day on the row), and many Jews (although
> not me)
> consider Saturday to be the first day of the week. Then there's the
> rest of us,
> to whom Monday will always be the first day. :)
>
> Dan
> http://members.tripod.com/microtonal/
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Saturday as the first day of the week?  I've never heard of that....it's
always called "the Seventh Day", Sunday being "the First Day"...


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