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Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:

>> "week days". Who designed this crazy language? (English, I
>> mean?) ;-)

> The Celts, the Romans, the Saxons, the Danes, and the Normans.

> What did you expect of a language-by-committee (especially when
> the committee members had only serial meetings <G>)

Danish calls the 24 hour period "d�gn"� and the period when the
sun is up "dag". Apparently, the committee responsible for the
design of English overlooked this neat little feature. Maybe yet
another example of the all too common not-invented-here syndrome
:)

� Actually, "d�gn" can be used for any 24 hour period, no matter
when it begins.
-- 
Torsten