How did the days of the week get their names?

Moment Of Um

Lemonada Media

Kids & Family, Education For Kids

4.4 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 16 May 2024

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

It’s super helpful that each day of the week has its own name! Without these names, it’d be really hard to keep track of our calendars – and there’d be no such thing as #MotivationMonday or #TacoTuesday! But why do the days of the week have the names that they do? We asked language expert Amelia Tseng to help us find the answer. Got a question that’s making you #WonderWednesday? Send it to us at BrainsOn.org/contact, and we’ll help #FindoutFriday! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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0:00.0	From the brains behind brains on, this is the moment of um.
0:08.4	Moment of um comes to you from APM Studios.
0:12.3	I'm Monday.
0:14.5	Um, um, um.
0:16.5	I know, I know everyone's least favorite day of the week here to crash your party.
0:24.6	Rise and shine, buddy, it's back to school, back to work, back to the G-R-I-N-D grind.
0:33.9	But don't worry.
0:35.2	Tomorrow, Tuesday will be here, and it's bringing tacos. Then Wednesday, hump day, hooray. And then it's basically Friday. Sunday, fun day can't get here soon enough, can it? All you have to do is get through me.
0:54.7	What is it about me. Ugh.
0:55.8	What is it about me that makes everyone so upset?
1:00.1	I'm friendly.
1:01.9	Last year, I even learned how to tap dance.
1:10.0	Could it be my name?
1:14.4	And if it is, maybe I could change it?
1:18.1	Yeah, that's it.
1:20.3	I'll change it to something that screams fun, zest, adventure.
1:27.1	How about pow day or woo day or yay day?
1:33.5	How did I end up with such a boring old name like Monday anyway?
1:37.8	How did any of us days end up with the names we've got?
1:41.6	Listener Eden was wondering the same thing. Hi, my name is Eden and I live in
1:46.9	Highbridge, New Jersey. My question is, how did the days of the week get their names?
1:53.9	Wonderful question, and I love it because asking that question, where did the first part comes from,
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