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will probably be the day the new sponsors are announced , the team photo, will be published , possible new signings will be unveiled and any news of the takeover just to leave it all till the last minute ! :rolleyes:

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The name Friday comes from the Old English frīgedæg, meaning the "day of Frige", translating Latin dies Veneris. The same holds for Frīatagin Old High German, Freitag in Modern German and Vrijdag in Dutch.

The expected cognate name in Old Norse would be *friggjar-dagr. However, the name of Friday in Old Norse is frjá-dagr instead, indicating a loan of the weekday names from Low German.[3] The modern Scandinavian form is Fredag in Swedish, Norwegian and Danish.

The word for Friday in most Romance languages is derived from Latin dies Veneris, "day of Venus" (a translation of Greek Aphrodites hemera) such as vendredi in French, venerdì in Italian, viernes in Spanish, divendres in Catalan, vennari in Corsican, and vineri in Romanian. This is also reflected in the p-Celtic Welsh language as dydd Gwener. An exception is Portuguese, also a Romance language, which uses the wordsexta-feira, meaning "sixth day of liturgical celebration", derived from the Latin "feria sexta" used in religious texts where it was not allowed to consecrate days to pagan gods.

In most of the Arabian languages, Friday is Jumma-tul-Mubarak (or a derived variation of Jumma), named for Jumma.

In most of the Indian languages, Friday is Shukravar (or a derived variation of Sukravar), named for Shukra, the Sanskrit name of the planet Venus. In other Indo-European languages the day is not related to the planet Venus.

In most Slavic languages an ordinal number is used in the name for this day of the week: Belarusian Пятніца, Bulgarian Петък, Czech pátek, Polish Piątek, Russian Пятница, Serbianпетак, Croatian Petak, Slovene Petek, Slovak Piatok, and Ukrainian П'ятниця all mean "fifth (day)". The Hungarian word péntek is also of Slavic origin. Similarly, the Portuguese issexta-feira, the sixth day.

For more interesting information on 'Friday' please visit - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friday (please be aware that information on this site should be treated with caution as it may not have been verified). Alternatively enter the word 'Friday' into one on the many available free internet search engines or visit your local reference library.

davieG

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You should start charging for pointless threads DavieG, you'd make a small fortune at the moment.

;)

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