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> .. considers Sunday to be the first day of the week How can the first day of the week happen in the middle of the weekend!?!

School-Cotton 4y ago
The same way all the other illogical things happened: random cultural legacy. Why would you expect the week start day to be any different?
count 4y ago
Both ends of the week are the weekend. One is the starting weekend, and the other the ending weekend.
- hunter2_ 4y ago
  Right, I (in the US) always figured "end" in the word "weekend" was akin to the two ends of a line segment, the two ends of a bar, etc. To instead think of "end" in the word "weekend" as the opposite of "start" is to use a completely different definition of the word "end". I wonder if "weekend" therefore has two definitions, given the split dependency.
  - glandium 4y ago
    It feels to me that for "end" to be used as the two ends of the week, it would be weekends (plural), not weekend (singular).
- NorwegianDude 4y ago
  Considering that the word is from the British and the fact that the week ends with Sunday there, that can't be it. It would also be weekends, not weekend if there was multiple ends. The upcoming weekends doesn't mean Saturday and Sunday in the US... It occurs over a time period of at least one whole week into the future...right?
drdeca 4y ago
Because the week has two endpoints: the initial day of the week and the final day of the week.
irrational 4y ago
Sunday being the first day of the week came long (as in thousands of years) before the weekend was invented (which is a very recent development).
nwallin 4y ago
Weekends? Weekends are... the ... ends of the week. When you build a bookshelf, do you do: <stack of bricks> <book> <book> <book> <book> <book> <stack of bricks> or do you do: <book> <book> <book> <book> <book> <stack of bricks> <stack of bricks>
- fabatka 4y ago
  When you want to know how your friend spent the previous Saturday and Sunday, do you ask: "How was your weekend?" Or do you ask: "How were your weekends?"
  - IncRnd 4y ago
    When you purchase bookends, you get two, one for each end of the bookshelf.
- ClumsyPilot 4y ago
  A week is not a bookshelf, it's a snake. Does a snake have one end, or does it have two? Does a dog have two tails and two butts?
  - kemitche 4y ago
    Weeks are not snakes, either. They're continuous, forever. Do snakes line up mouth to tail forever?
    - ericpruitt 4y ago
      When they're stressed or ill, yes: - https://www.iflscience.com/stressed-out-snake-eats-itself-24388 https://www.iflscience.com/stressed-out-snake-eats-itself-24... - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ouroboros https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ouroboros
  - IncRnd 4y ago
    A week is not a snake. Each week is discrete and a different week from every other week.

School-Cotton 4y ago

The same way all the other illogical things happened: random cultural legacy. Why would you expect the week start day to be any different?

count 4y ago

Both ends of the week are the weekend. One is the starting weekend, and the other the ending weekend.

hunter2_ 4y ago
Right, I (in the US) always figured "end" in the word "weekend" was akin to the two ends of a line segment, the two ends of a bar, etc. To instead think of "end" in the word "weekend" as the opposite of "start" is to use a completely different definition of the word "end". I wonder if "weekend" therefore has two definitions, given the split dependency.
- glandium 4y ago
  It feels to me that for "end" to be used as the two ends of the week, it would be weekends (plural), not weekend (singular).
NorwegianDude 4y ago
Considering that the word is from the British and the fact that the week ends with Sunday there, that can't be it. It would also be weekends, not weekend if there was multiple ends. The upcoming weekends doesn't mean Saturday and Sunday in the US... It occurs over a time period of at least one whole week into the future...right?

drdeca 4y ago

Because the week has two endpoints: the initial day of the week and the final day of the week.

irrational 4y ago

Sunday being the first day of the week came long (as in thousands of years) before the weekend was invented (which is a very recent development).

nwallin 4y ago

Weekends? Weekends are... the ... ends of the week. When you build a bookshelf, do you do: <stack of bricks> <book> <book> <book> <book> <book> <stack of bricks> or do you do: <book> <book> <book> <book> <book> <stack of bricks> <stack of bricks>

fabatka 4y ago
When you want to know how your friend spent the previous Saturday and Sunday, do you ask: "How was your weekend?" Or do you ask: "How were your weekends?"
- IncRnd 4y ago
  When you purchase bookends, you get two, one for each end of the bookshelf.
ClumsyPilot 4y ago
A week is not a bookshelf, it's a snake. Does a snake have one end, or does it have two? Does a dog have two tails and two butts?
- kemitche 4y ago
  Weeks are not snakes, either. They're continuous, forever. Do snakes line up mouth to tail forever?
  - ericpruitt 4y ago
    When they're stressed or ill, yes: - https://www.iflscience.com/stressed-out-snake-eats-itself-24388 https://www.iflscience.com/stressed-out-snake-eats-itself-24... - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ouroboros https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ouroboros
- IncRnd 4y ago
  A week is not a snake. Each week is discrete and a different week from every other week.