In some contexts I'd agree, though in this context I see no reason to assume it's not literal, rather than a euphamism. (Just common sense.)biffvernon wrote:Seven, like forty, was, you will recall from serious study of biblical literature, not a real number. Seven was used for 'quite a few' and forty meant 'quite a lot'.
Funny how a supposedly Christianised culture ever retained old pagan names for the days of the week- which I don't see shouldn't be a broader tradition.I'm not proposing the abolition of Sunday or even of the Sabbath, just Tuesday, which honours some rather obscure Germanic god, with the French Mardi named after the Roman god Mars.
Not saying it wasn't. Just that we don't need to mess up the seven day week first- it might be better if we kept it, and if we lost it it would just mess up our routines if nowt else. So there.Fear not, this is not an attack on Christianity - just a scheme to get us to work less and play more.
Why not just a three-day weekend or a midweek day off (Wednesday is best, or we could use the German word, Mittwoch- literally 'midweek'?)
