Talk:Thursday

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—Yamara ✉  05:10, 27 April 2008 (UTC)

Should the "wearing green on thursdays means you're gay" thing be added?

I reverted "and United States" because as I understand it (I'm not American myself), U.S. Federal elections (and many state and local elections) are held on Tuesdays, particularly the "Tuesday after the first Monday in November". See http://www.fec.gov/pages/faqvdayeprocedures.htm.

If this is wrong, feel free to put it back.

More on what days various countries vote on would be good.


 * I have changed In the United Kingdom, elections are traditionally held on Thursdays. This was to ensure a high turnout, as people would have spent their previous weeks wages, paid the previous Friday as this "explanation" has to me the ring of an urban myth (unless anyone can come up with evidence from the 1930s of this consideration being genuinely taken into account by Prime Ministers -- who choose the date).
 * Ontario, by the way, is an example of a territory which does fix Thursday as election day by statute
 * The great majority of European countries (the Netherlands being a notable exception) vote on a Sunday. - Picapica 21:31, 12 May 2005 (UTC)

--rbrwr

No, you're right... I just blanked.. and I'm from the US.. I was thinking to myself "Oh, we have them on Tuesdays too!"... forgetting that I was looking at an article on Thursday. :) --Dante Alighieri 22:54 Dec 5, 2002 (UTC)


 * No problem. I've added US elections to Tuesday. --rbrwr

R
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)

maybe because Thursday sounds like "R's day". don't take this seriously. hehe. -janyu86

I say it oughtta be "MTWrFS."

75.162.203.121 (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 12:22, 9 September 2012 (UTC)

I heard that it’s because no other day of the week has an R in its name, so that cuts down confusion. Don’t have a source though & it looks like this section isn’t in the current doc.

fRiday and satuRday exist, so that can't be it. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 73.159.163.114 (talk) 19:38, 8 January 2024 (UTC)

So Happy It's Thursday
Until I read this article mere minutes ago, I have never heard this expression. Am I the only one who hasn't heard of it?

I went here to see if I could find it.

http://www.acronymfinder.com/af-query.asp?String=exact&Acronym=shit

But i couldn't.

I then did a Google search and "So Happy It's Thursday" came up only 806 times. Many of those times were either blogs or redundant pages. I saw few, if any reputable sources, unlike when "Thank God It's Friday" is typed in. Do we really need S.H.I.T on this page? Masterhatch 9 July 2005

Name
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)
 * 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)

Must-See Thursday
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) It can introduce people form other countries to American culture. -- Eric Albertson -- — Preceding unsigned comment added by Rockcenter (talk • contribs) 08:30, 30 June 2012 (UTC)

Pete Incaviglia
Is the Pete Incaviglia incident really known as Black Thursday? Joyous (talk) 01:49, August 27, 2005 (UTC)

The Man Who Was Thursday
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).

Revamped Monday thru Thursday
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)

How about some IPA?
"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)


 * I agree, "CHET-vierg" is utterly useless. Jimp 11:59, 22 May 2016 (UTC)

Fourth day of the week in the Judeo-Christian calendar?
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)

Finnish is not a Germanic language
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)

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

Wow, Biblical Thorsday-Wikipedia
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)

International standard adoption
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)

Opposition to the name
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)

12/29/2019?
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.

 flarn 2006  [u t c] time: 16:37, 7 November 2019 (UTC)