"Wednesday Wednesday is the day of the week between Tuesday and Thursday. According to international standard ISO 8601 it is the third day of the week. In countries that use the ""Sunday-last"" convention and in the Jewish Hebrew calendar Wednesday is defined as the third day of the week. The name is derived from Old English ""Wōdnesdæg"" and Middle English ""Wednesdei"", ""day of Woden"", reflecting the pre-Christian religion practiced by the Anglo-Saxons, a variation of the Norse god Odin. In other languages, such as the French ""mercredi"" or Italian ""mercoledì"", the day's name is a calque of ""dies Mercurii"" ""day"
"Europe and it is especially aligned by the astrological signs of Gemini and Virgo. Wednesday is one of the only three days aside from Neptune and Pluto to be associated by another planet, which is Uranus. Wednesday Wednesday is the day of the week between Tuesday and Thursday. According to international standard ISO 8601 it is the third day of the week. In countries that use the ""Sunday-last"" convention and in the Jewish Hebrew calendar Wednesday is defined as the third day of the week. The name is derived from Old English ""Wōdnesdæg"" and Middle English ""Wednesdei"", ""day of Woden"","
"""Ónsdagur"", though, which shares etymology with Wednesday. Danish, Norwegian, Swedish Onsdag, (""Ons-dag"" = Oden's/Odin's dag/day). In Japanese, the word for Wednesday is 水曜日(sui youbi), meaning 'water day' and is associated with 水星 (suisei): Mercury (the planet), literally meaning ""water star"". Similarly, in Korean the word Wednesday is 수요일 (su yo il), also meaning water day. In most of the languages of India, the word for Wednesday is Budhavāra — vāra meaning day and Budha being the planet Mercury. In Armenian (Չորեքշաբթի—chorekshabti), Georgian (ოთხშაბათი—otkhshabati), Turkish (Çarşamba), and Tajik (Chorshanbiyev) languages the word literally means as ""four (days) from Saturday"" originating from"
"February each year. Carnival celebrations end on Mardi Gras, which is French for ""Fat Tuesday"", also known as Shrove Tuesday. Mardi Gras is the Tuesday before the Roman Catholic holiday known as Ash Wednesday. Ash Wednesday marks the beginning of the Lenten season, a somber period of fasting and penance that precedes Easter for Catholics. The first Mardi Gras celebrations in Europe were a carnivalesque opportunity for people to indulge themselves, celebrate, and even subvert authority in a permissible way, as part of the party. Mardi Gras enabled people to enjoy the pleasures of life before the beginning of the"
"Quinzaine Quinzaine is a word of French language derivation: 'a quinzaine' is to Fifteen as 'a dozen' is to Twelve, and 'a trental' is to Thirty. It has various contexts of use in English. 'La quinzaine' is used in French to indicate a two week period, just like 'huit jours' indicates a one week period (in France) even though two weeks are fourteen days and one week is 7 days. It is an old habit to add the current day as to say 'in two weeks plus today'. The English language equivalent is 'fortnight' which means fourteen days. A Quinzaine"
"comes from ""chéad"", ""first"" and ""aoine"", ""fasting"" which means ""first day of fasting"". In American culture many Catholic and Protestant churches schedule study or prayer meetings on Wednesday nights. The sports calendar in many American public schools reflects this, reserving Mondays and Thursdays for girls' games and Tuesdays and Fridays for boys' games while generally avoiding events on Wednesday evening. In Hindu mythology, Budha is the god of Mercury (planet), mid-week Wednesday, and of Merchants and merchandise. According to the Thai solar calendar, the color associated with Wednesday is green. In the folk rhyme ""Wednesday's child is full of woe"","
"of Saint Bernard can only speak English. Mardi Gras (Fat Tuesday in English) in New Orleans, Louisiana, is a Carnival celebration well known throughout the world. It has colonial French roots. The New Orleans Carnival season, with roots in preparing for the start of the Christian season of Lent, starts after Twelfth Night, on Epiphany (January 6). It is a season of parades, balls (some of them masquerade balls), and king cake parties. It has traditionally been part of the winter social season; at one time ""coming out"" parties for young women at débutante balls were timed for this season."
"of Mercury"". It has the most letters out of all the Gregorian calendar days. Wednesday is in the middle of the common Western five-day workweek that starts on Monday and finishes on Friday. The name Wednesday continues Middle English ""Wednesdei"". Old English still had ""wōdnesdæg"", which would be continued as ""*Wodnesday"" (but Old Frisian has an attested ""wednesdei""). By the early 13th century, the ""i""-mutated form was introduced unetymologically. The name is a calque of the Latin ""dies Mercurii"" ""day of Mercury"", reflecting the fact that the Germanic god Woden (Wodanaz or Odin) during the Roman era was interpreted as"
"also used. Quinzaine Quinzaine is a word of French language derivation: 'a quinzaine' is to Fifteen as 'a dozen' is to Twelve, and 'a trental' is to Thirty. It has various contexts of use in English. 'La quinzaine' is used in French to indicate a two week period, just like 'huit jours' indicates a one week period (in France) even though two weeks are fourteen days and one week is 7 days. It is an old habit to add the current day as to say 'in two weeks plus today'. The English language equivalent is 'fortnight' which means fourteen days."
"Mardi Gras Mardi Gras (), or Fat Tuesday, refers to events of the Carnival celebration, beginning on or after the Christian feasts of the Epiphany (Three Kings Day) and culminating on the day before Ash Wednesday (known as Shrove Tuesday). is French for ""Fat Tuesday"", reflecting the practice of the last night of eating richer, fatty foods before the ritual fasting of the Lenten season. Related popular practices are associated with Shrovetide celebrations before the fasting and religious obligations associated with the penitential season of Lent. In countries such as the United Kingdom, Mardi Gras is also known as Shrove"
"many Christians, including Anglicans, Lutherans, Methodists and Roman Catholics, who ""make a special point of self-examination, of considering what wrongs they need to repent, and what amendments of life or areas of spiritual growth they especially need to ask God's help in dealing with."" Being the last day of the liturgical season historically known as Shrovetide, before the penitential season of Lent, related popular practices, such as indulging in food that one sacrifices for the upcoming forty days, are associated with Shrove Tuesday celebrations, before commencing the fasting and religious obligations associated with Lent. The term ""Mardi Gras"" is French"
"Thursday Thursday is the day of the week between Wednesday and Friday. According to the ISO 8601 international standard, it is the fourth day of the week. ""See Names of the days of the week for more on naming conventions. "" The name is derived from Old English ""Þūnresdæg"" and Middle English ""Thuresday"" (with loss of -n-, first in northern dialects, from influence of Old Norse ""Þorsdagr"") meaning ""Thor's Day"". It was named after the Norse god of Thunder, Thor. ""Thunor, Donar"" (German, ""Donnerstag"") and ""Thor"" are derived from the name of the Germanic god of thunder, ""Thunraz"", equivalent to"
"Shrove Tuesday Shrove Tuesday (also known in Commonwealth countries and Ireland as Pancake Tuesday or Pancake day) is the day in February or March immediately preceding Ash Wednesday (the first day of Lent), which is celebrated in some countries by consuming pancakes. In others, especially those where it is called Mardi Gras or some translation thereof, this is a carnival day, and also the last day of ""fat eating"" or ""gorging"" before the fasting period of Lent. This moveable feast is determined by Easter. The expression ""Shrove Tuesday"" comes from the word ""shrive"", meaning ""absolve"". Shrove Tuesday is observed by"
"because of Celtic (via Breton) and Viking influences). This system is comparable to the archaic English use of ""score"", as in ""fourscore and seven"" (87), or ""threescore and ten"" (70). In Old French (during the Middle Ages), all numbers from 30 to 99 could be said in either base 10 or base 20, e.g. ""vint et doze"" (twenty and twelve) for 32, ""dous vinz et diz"" (two twenties and ten) for 50, ""uitante"" for 80, or ""nonante"" for 90. Belgian French, Swiss French, Aostan French and the French used in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Rwanda and Burundi are"
"Persian (چهارشنبه—Cheharshnbh). Portuguese uses the word ""quarta-feira"", meaning ""fourth day"", while in Greek the word is ""Tetarti"" (Τετάρτη) meaning simply ""fourth"". Similarly, Arabic means ""fourth"", Hebrew means ""fourth"", and Persian means ""fourth day"". Yet the name for the day in Estonian ""kolmapäev"", Lithuanian ""trečiadienis"", and Latvian ""trešdiena"" means ""third day"" while in Mandarin Chinese (""xīngqīsān""), means ""day three"", as Sunday is unnumbered. The Creation narrative in the Hebrew Bible places the creation of the Sun and Moon on ""the fourth day"" of the divine workweek. Quakers traditionally referred to Wednesday as ""Fourth Day"" to avoid the pagan associations with the"
"Fettisdagen Fettisdagen (""The Fat Tuesday"") is the Swedish name for the Tuesday after the Quinquagesima and the day between Shrove Monday and Ash Wednesday. Because it is the last day before the Lenten fast, a tradition has developed of eating buns, called ""fastlagsbullar"", ""fettisdagsbullar"" (Fat Tuesday Buns) or ""semla"". The day is also called ""White Tuesday"" because the buns are made out of white flour. The day is called ""Mardi Gras"" in France, ""Carnaval"" or ""Vastenavond"" in the Netherlands, ""Laskiainen"" (or ""fastlagstisdagen"") in Finland, ""vastlapäev"" in Estonia, and ""Fastelavn"" in Denmark. In the UK it is known as Shrove Tuesday"
"word Tuesday originated from Old Church Slavonic word ""въторъ"" meaning """"the second"""". Bulgarian and Russian ""Вторник"" (""Vtornik"") (Serbian:""уторак"" (""utorak"")) is derived from the Bulgarian and Russian adjective for 'Second' - ""Втори"" (Vtori) or ""Второй"" (Vtoroi). In Japanese, the word Tuesday is 火曜日(ka youbi), meaning 'fire day' and is associated with 火星 (kasei): Mars (the planet), literally meaning ""fire star"". Similarly, in Korean the word Tuesday is 화요일 (hwa yo il), also meaning fire day. In the Indo-Aryan languages Pali and Sanskrit the name of the day is taken from ""Angaraka"" ('one who is red in colour') a style (manner of"
"Ash Wednesday Ash Wednesday is a Christian holy day of prayer, fasting and repentance. It is preceded by Shrove Tuesday and falls on the first day of Lent, the six weeks of penitence before Easter. Ash Wednesday is observed by many Christians, including Anglicans, Lutherans, Old Catholics, Methodists, Presbyterians, Roman Catholics, and some Baptists. Ash Wednesday derives its name from the placing of repentance ashes on the foreheads of participants to either the words ""Repent, and believe in the Gospel"" or the dictum ""Remember that you are dust, and to dust you shall return."" The ashes may be prepared by"
"), which is used in many French dialects and has no available synonym in those dialects; however Canadians would use ' ('the end of the week') instead, although in France refers to the end of the work week, i.e. Thursday and Friday. also refers to nouns created from Anglo-Saxon roots or from recent English loanwords (themselves not always Anglo-Saxon in origin), often by adding ""-ing"" at the end of a popular word—e.g., ('a car park or parking lot' is more properly ' in Canadian French, although means 'the action of parking or the state of being parked' in European French);"
"wit wan blain deit/ ""The guy said he gonna fix me up with one blind date"", and Haitian Creole /Mwen va fini/ ""I go finish"". Similarly to English, the French verb ""aller"" (""to go"") can be used as an auxiliary verb to create a near-future tense (""le futur proche""). For example, the English sentence ""I am going to do it tomorrow"" can be translated by ""Je vais le faire demain"" (literally ""I go it to do tomorrow""; French does not have a distinct present progressive form, so ""je vais"" stands for both ""I go"" and ""I am going""). As in"
"or Pancake Day. Fettisdagen Fettisdagen (""The Fat Tuesday"") is the Swedish name for the Tuesday after the Quinquagesima and the day between Shrove Monday and Ash Wednesday. Because it is the last day before the Lenten fast, a tradition has developed of eating buns, called ""fastlagsbullar"", ""fettisdagsbullar"" (Fat Tuesday Buns) or ""semla"". The day is also called ""White Tuesday"" because the buns are made out of white flour. The day is called ""Mardi Gras"" in France, ""Carnaval"" or ""Vastenavond"" in the Netherlands, ""Laskiainen"" (or ""fastlagstisdagen"") in Finland, ""vastlapäev"" in Estonia, and ""Fastelavn"" in Denmark. In the UK it is known"
"Standard French Standard French (in French: ""le français standard"", ""le français normé"", ""le français neutre"" [Neutral French] or ""le français international"" [International French], the last being a Quebec invention) is an unofficial term for a standard variety of the French language. It is a set of spoken and written formal varieties used by the educated francophones of several nations around the world. As French is a pluricentric language, Standard French encompasses various linguistic norms (consisting of prescribed usage). The syntax, morphology, and orthography of Standard French is explained in various works on grammar and style such as the ""Bescherelle"", a"
"the following day, Ash Wednesday, which begins the penitential season of Lent. As such, one of the ""solemn practices of Ash Wednesday is to pack all the beads acquired during the parade season into bags and boxes and taken them to the attic"". Spectators have traditionally shouted to the krewe members, ""Throw me something, mister!"", a phrase that is iconic in New Orleans' Mardi Gras street argot. Some women expose their breasts to invite throws. Some krewes have specialty throws; for example, the Zulu Social Aid & Pleasure Club hand-painted coconut or the Krewe of Muses shoes and mirrors. Mardi"
"traffic congestion. The black colour is the qualification with which the French government web site ""Bison Futé"" designates a day with ""extrêmement dense"" (extremely busy) traffic. The French newspapers call this day ""samedi noir"" after Bison Futé's designation. Usually, the French call these days ""les jours de grands départs"" (days of great departures). In Dutch, this French phenomenon was known as ""zwarte zaterdag"" long before the French adopted the term ""samedi noir"", both meaning (literally) Black Saturday. The term Black Saturday may also refer to Saturday July 31, 1982, when the worst road accident in French history happened. Around 1:45"
"address) for Mangala, the god of war, and for Mars, the red planet. In the Nahuatl language, Tuesday is () meaning ""day of Huitzilopochtli"". In the Eastern Orthodox Church, Tuesdays are dedicated to Saint John the Baptist. The Octoechos contains hymns on this theme, arranged in an eight-week cycle, that are chanted on Tuesdays throughout the year. At the end of Divine Services on Tuesday, the dismissal begins with the words: ""May Christ our True God, through the intercessions of his most-pure Mother, of the honorable and glorious Prophet, Forerunner and Baptist John…"" In the Greek world, Tuesday (the day"
"In Vietnamese, the working days in the week are named as: ""Thứ Hai"" (second day), ""Thứ Ba"" (third day), ""Thứ Tư"" (fourth day), ""Thứ Năm"" (fifth day), ""Thứ Sáu"" (sixth day), ""Thứ Bảy"" (seventh day). Sunday is called ""Chủ Nhật"", a corrupted form of ""Chúa Nhật"" meaning ""Lord's Day"". Some colloquial text in the south of Vietnam and from the church may still use the old form to mean Sunday. In German, Wednesday is called ""Mittwoch"", literally ""mid-week"", implying that weeks run from Sunday to Saturday. In Italian, Sunday is called ""domenica"", which also means ""Lord's Day"" (from Latin ""Dies"
"Holy Wednesday In Christianity, Holy Wednesday, also called Spy Wednesday, or Good Wednesday (in Western Christianity), and Holy and Great Wednesday (in the Eastern and Oriental Orthodox Churches), is the Wednesday of Holy Week, the week before Easter. It is followed by Maundy Thursday (Holy Thursday). In the New Testament account of Holy Week, after Palm Sunday, the Sanhedrin gathered and plotted to kill Jesus before the feast of Pesach. On the Wednesday before his death, Jesus was in Bethany, in the house of Simon the Leper. As he sat at the supper table with his disciples, a woman named"
"the French of France, sometimes called ""Metropolitan French"", but they are easily mutually intelligible in their formal varieties, and after moderate exposure, in most of their informal ones as well. The differences are primarily due to changes that have occurred in Quebec French and Parisian French since the 18th century, when Britain gained possession of Canada. Different regions of Quebec have their own varieties: Gaspé Peninsula, Côte-Nord, Quebec City, Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean, Outaouais, and Abitibi-Témiscamingue have differences in pronunciation as well as in vocabulary. For example, depending on one's region, the ordinary word for ""kettle"" can be or . In Quebec, the"
"+ les"" = ""ses"". Sometimes ""dans"" + ""un"" and ""dans"" + ""les"" is abbreviated to just ""dun"" and ""dins"". In the informal French of France, ""sur + le"" also becomes ""su'l"", such as ""L'dimanche, i'est su'l pont dès 8 heures du mat"" ('On Sundays, he's hard at work from 8 am'). No other contractions are used. Some initial consonants are also reduced: ""gueule"" (France, ), especially in the construction ""ta gueule"" ""shut up"". Many Québécois even write ""gueule"" as ""yeule"". The high front vowels in Quebec French show a net tendency to be unvoiced or even lost, as in ""municipalité"""
"vampire behavior; and ""Diab rouj"" (red devil), who dresses in red and black. The ""tululu"" (mask) is worn in French Guiana while celebrating carnival. Fridays commonly include eating a cake, known as the ""galette des rois"" (cake of kings, which in mainland France would be eaten only for the Epiphany), representing the Three Kings. Blaff is also commonly consumed during this period. On the Saturday preceding Lent, carnival Queens (locally, ""Touloulous"") dress in colourful, camouflaged dresses and wear masks while they dance through the streets. Their costumes – lace and petticoats, tights and gloves – cover them from head to"
"specifically refers to the Tuesday before Lent, the highlight of the season. The term can also be used less specifically for the whole Carnival season, sometimes as ""the Mardi Gras season"". The terms ""Fat Tuesday"" or ""Mardi Gras Day"" always refer only to that specific day. While the sophisticated Creole society of New Orleans has historically received much attention, the Cane River area developed its own strong Creole culture. The Cane River Creole community in the northern part of the state, along the Red River and Cane River, is made up of multi-racial descendants of French, Spanish, Africans, Native Americans,"
"from Greek tiganos (τίγανος), meaning ""frying pan"", which in English is literally translated to Pancakes. The French term, crêpe, derives from the Latin ""crispa"", meaning tiganitai with ""creases"". The name ""galette"" came from the French word ""galet"" (""pebble"") since the first gallettes were made on a large pebble heated in a fire. In France, crêpes are traditionally served on Candlemas (""La Chandeleur""), 2 February. This day was originally Virgin Mary's Blessing Day but became known in France as ""Le Jour des Crêpes"" (literally translated ""The Day of the Crêpes"", and sometimes called colloquially as ""Avec Crêpe Day"", ""National Crêpe Day"","
"after the Quinquagesima and the day between Shrove Monday and Ash Wednesday. Because it is the last day before the Lenten fast, a tradition has developed of eating buns, called ""fastlagsbullar"", ""fettisdagsbullar"" (Fat Tuesday Buns) or ""semla"". The day is also called ""White Tuesday"" because the buns are made out of white flour. The day is called ""Mardi Gras"" in France, ""Carnaval"" or ""Vastenavond"" in the Netherlands, ""laskiainen""/""fastlagstisdagen"" in Finland, ""vastlapäev"" in Estonia, and ""Fastelavn"" in Denmark. In the UK it is known as Shrove Tuesday or Pancake Day. Syrian Catholics have celebrated the day as ""Drunkard's Thursday"" with dolmas"