--- In [email protected], [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > In a message dated 2/20/07 4:59:56 P.M. Central Standard Time, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > hence the reason why all Romance languages (as far as > I know) call Saturday "Sabbath Day." > > > > I always thought it was Saturday after Saturn and Sunday after the Sun and > Monday after the moon.
English is a Germanic language. And the English names seem to follow (at least partly) the convention used by China and Japan, rather than Rome: Sun Day, Moon Day, Fire Day, Water Day, Wood Day, Gold Day, Earth Day.
