When I recently made myself a visual diary, I explored the o…
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When I recently made myself a visual diary, I explored the origins of the names of the days of the week. In fact, a while ago, when I went to Japanese language evening class, I was struck by how the days of the week in Japanese were named after certain planets, and knowing a bit of French I was struck by the fact that the French too named the days of the week after the same planets. It's not so clear in English because we've swapped the Greek and Roman Gods for Norse ones - like Woden and Thor,
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