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[[Portuguese language|Portuguese]] uses numbers instead of pagan names and so their word for "Tuesday" is ''terça-feira'' (the third day; Sunday [Domingo] is the first day of the liturgical week). |
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The [[Greek language|Greek]] word for "Tuesday" is ''Triti'' meaning "third", counting Tuesday as the third day of the week. |
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The [[Hebrew language|Hebrew]] word for "Tuesday" is ''[[Hebrew_calendar#Weeks|Yom Shlishi]] (יום שלישי)'' meaning "third day", counting Tuesday as the third day of the week. |
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The [[Arabic language|Arabic]] word for "Tuesday" is ''[[Islamic_calendar#Days_of_the_week|yawm ath-thulaathaaʼ]] يوم الثلاثاء ([[Urdu]], Mangl منگل) ([[Persian language|Persian]]: Seh-Shanbeh, سه شنبه) '' meaning "third day", counting Tuesday as the third day of the week. |
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The [[Russian language|Russian]] word for "Tuesday" is ''vtórnik,'' meaning "second"; that is, counting Tuesday as the second day of the week. |
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[[Religious Society of Friends|Quakers]] traditionally referred to Tuesday as "Third Day" eschewing the [[Paganism|pagan]] origin of the English name "Tuesday". This has also been the custom in Iceland since about the 11th century when [[Jón Ögmundsson]] changed it to Þriðjudagur, meaning "Third Day".{{Fact|date=January 2008}} |
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==Religious observances== |
==Religious observances== |
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Tuesday (Template:Pron-en) is the day of the week between Monday and Wednesday.
Origins of the name
- See Week-day names for more on naming conventions.
Planetary
Religious observances
In the Eastern Orthodox Church. Tuesdays are dedicated to Saint John the Baptist. The Octoechos contains hymns on this theme, arranged in an eight-week cycle, that are chanted on Tuesdays throughout the year. At the end of Divine Services on Tuesday, the dismissal begins with the words: "May Christ our True God, through the intercessions of his most-pure Mother, of the honorable and glorious Prophet, Forerunner and Baptist John…"
Cultural references
In the Greek world, Tuesday (the day of the week of the Fall of Constantinople) is considered an unlucky day. The same is true in the Spanish-speaking world, where a proverb runs: En martes, ni te cases ni te embarques, meaning, "On Tuesday, neither get married nor begin a journey." For both Greeks and Spanish-speakers, the 13th of the month is considered unlucky if it falls on Tuesday, instead of Friday. In Judaism, on the other hand, Tuesday is considered a particularly lucky day, because in the first chapter of Genesis the paragraph about this day contains the phrase "it was good" twice.
In the Thai solar calendar, the day is named for the Pali word for the planet Mars, which also means "Ashes of the Dead" [1]; the color associated with Tuesday is pink.
In the folk rhyme Monday's Child, "Tuesday's child is full of grace".
Common occurrences
United States and Canada
Tuesday is the usual day for elections in the United States. Federal elections take place on the Tuesday after the first Monday in November; this date was established by a law of 1845 for presidential elections (specifically for the selection of the Electoral College), and was extended to elections for the House of Representatives in 1875 and for the Senate in 1914. Tuesday was the earliest day of the week which was practical for polling in the early nineteenth century: citizens might have to travel for a whole day to cast their vote, and would not wish to leave on Sunday which was a day of worship for the great majority of them.
In the United States and Canada, most home video and audio releases for purchase or rental occur on Tuesdays. Since this policy began, there have been very few exceptions to this common release day.[citation needed]
Named days
- Black Tuesday, in the United States, refers to October 29, 1929, part of the great Stock Market Crash of 1929. This was the Tuesday after Black Thursday. The crash is said to have marked the start of the Great Depression.
- Patch Tuesday is the second Tuesday of every month when Microsoft releases patches for their products. Some system administrators call this day Black Tuesday.
- Shrove Tuesday (also called Mardi Gras - fat Tuesday) precedes the first day of Lent in the Western Christian calendar.
- Super Tuesday is the day many American states hold their presidential primary elections.
Sources
- Grimm, Jacob. 1875–78. Deutsche Mythologie. Fourth ed., curated by Elard Hugo Meyer, 3 vols. Berlin: F. Dümmler. Reprinted Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 1965.
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