Talk:Thursday

message: Anyone know why Thursday is R on a MTWRF setup of the week?
The only thing I could find was from Wikipedia's article on the letter R: "In calendars, R is often used as an abbreviation for Thursday instead of T, to avoid confusion with Tuesday" Blorg 13:49, 30 Mar 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  R 

message: Isn't thursday Named for Thor? H0D_G 06:25, 20 May 2006
::Yes, I think that's so. In German (which English is closely related to) it's "Donnerstag", meaning "day of thunder", or "thunder day". I can also honestly see no phonetic relation between "Thur" and "Jupiter", but the similarities between "Thur" and "Thor" are striking. --beast66625 23:50, 2 October 2006
: Why are you asking this here instead of, gee, I dunno, maybe reading the first paragraph of the article for which this is a talk page, which specifically explains that this is so and provides the relevant etymology?
:: The contemporary name Thursday comes from the Old English Þunresdæg, meaning "Day of Thunor"
: Thunor (or more accurately, Þunor) being the Anglo-Saxon name for the deity for which the Old Norse name is Thorr and who is usually named in Modern English Thor --Yst 10:09, 4 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: To be fair, the article also mentions Jupiter's Day and that's not so obvious. You need to read the Jupiter (mythology) article and make the connection that Thunor/Thor and Jupiter are all thunder gods with the Romance languages sticking to the Jupiter root for naming Thursday. -- Solipsist 10:50, 4 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Name

message: Would it be worth noting that the most popular television shows eventually make their way to the 8:00-10:00 Thursday block of programming? (And is this only applicable to the United States?) What is the reason for this? Is it just that people are excited for Friday, so they want to start the weekend early by kicking back with a few sitcoms on Thursday? --Birdhombre 14:34, 2 August 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Must-See Thursday 

message: The Man Who was Thursday is a book by G.K. Chesterton 
The son of Fletcher Christianson (leader of the H.M.S. Bounty Mutineers) is named Thursday October Christianson. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 134.129.135.145 (talk) 02:04, 4 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  The Man Who Was Thursday  

message: I sincerely hope I haven't treaded on anyone's toes by restructuring these pages, but there really wasn't any consistency among them, and some pages looked awful messy. Of course feel free to revert or edit what I've changed. Unfortunately I never haver had time to do Friday to Sunday. Annatto (talk) 19:17, 26 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Revamped Monday thru Thursday

message: "Russian четверг, pronounced CHET-vierg"
Providing pronunciation help like that might be appropriate for Americans but why isn't IPA used?  Using CHET-vierg to illustrate pronunciation doesn't help because the pronunciation of those letters varies depending on where English speakers are located.  In addition Wikipedia is used as an encyclopaedia by people of all nationalities and languages and CHET-vierg is of no use what so ever to anyone unless they associate the letters with American English conventions.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 217.203.179.91 (talk) 21:42, 26 November 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree, "CHET-vierg" is utterly useless. Jimp 11:59, 22 May 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  How about some IPA? 

message: The first day of the week in the Judeo-Christian calendar is Sunday. Shouldn't Thursday be the fifth day of the week in this calendar? 201.230.78.106 (talk) 15:26, 7 December 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Fourth day of the week in the Judeo-Christian calendar? 

message: In the article you can read: "Most Germanic languages name the day either after this god: Torsdag in Danish, Norweigan, and Swedish, torstai in Finnish...". But Finnish is not a Germanic language. However, the name of the day is from Swedish influence. Stay or go?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 90.230.104.148 (talk) 22:57, 31 October 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Finnish is not a Germanic language 

message: For a discussion on the claim about the Gregorian calendar that I keep deleting, see Talk:Monday#First day of the week. -- Dr Greg  talk  13:00, 11 September 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Gregorian calendar 

message: Donnerwetter (german swearing) even in Messopotamia the fifth day was called Thorsday, says beginning of this article.
Or maybe the point that the fifth day comes between the fourth and sixth. Might depend on what day one starts with  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 93.91.181.115 (talk) 17:05, 13 June 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Wow, Biblical Thorsday-Wikipedia 

message: The intro mentions "the ISO 8601 international standard adopted in most western countries".  What does this even mean?  Who are we suggesting has done the adoption?  Generally it makes little difference if the government happens to adopt the standard, people are free to make calendars as they please.  Jimp 11:58, 22 May 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  International standard adoption 

message: Since some people are insisting the we stop using BC/AD, we should also stop using the names of gods for days of the weeks such as Thursday. A section should be added to reflect the oppression to the name of this day, and potential alternative names that can be used.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2604:2D80:E402:A800:6CFA:5828:AC5F:88D8 (talk) 14:12, 25 June 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Opposition to the name 

message: The first paragraph said "12/29/2019" at the end of it. It was added in this edit:
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Thursday&diff=prev&oldid=923214031
The edit description just has that same date in it, with no explanation. I removed it, but can anyone think of any purpose this would have served? I can't think of any legitimate reason for the edit, but at the same time it almost seems too bizarre/random to be vandalism.
flarn2006 [u t c] time: 16:37, 7 November 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  12/29/2019?