Thank Gord it’s freeday
Posted on Mar 10 2006 | Tagged as: Politics, Words
Etymologists assert that ‘friday’ comes from the old English ‘frigedæg’, or the day of Frige, the Norse goddess of beauty.
Liars. It’s actually a mispronounciation of ‘free day’, the day on which work is effectively done for free, as the equivalent of the day’s earnings is spirited away to the Chancellor’s coffers.
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on 31 Mar 2006 at 9:01 pm 1 clothilde said …
I read that the slogan “Thanks God it’s Friday”, by which american employees celebrate their last day of work has been replaced by “Thanks God it’s not Tuesday” since the company Challenger Gray & Christmas discovered that, in 55 % of the cases, big american companies announce dismissals on tuesday. interesting, isn’t it?