Today I was somewhere, doing something we all do, and I saw a calendar, and I was looking at days, and they went from Sat. till Fri., then my mind started wandering to the usual place of useless, yet valuable, thoughts and the following spit out: how come the first day of the week is Sunday in Arabic??? I will write this post in English for the benefit of Lady Freckles.
Let me explain. In Arabic, Sunday is called Ahad, followed by Alathneen, Althalatha, etc. till Alkhamees then you have other two days. Now compare the sequence to numbers, they go from 1 to 5, Sunday till Thursday, with Friday and Saturday not following any number sequence. Now that start our weeks on Sunday, it seems logical from a binary and computer way of thinking, however, this has not always been the case.
Now, take out all the religious and historical references for the start of the week, input the data in your computer (i.e. that bulk inside your head), and tell me, why did is it that Sunday is selected as the first day of the week and assigned with the number one??
Purgatorian Post #1193
19 Responses to “Sunday = One”
first day of work :S
no
no
hmmm..I never thought about it..it makes sense!
Sunday and Oneday rhyme
madri and i really NEED to know cos it's bugging me
Interesting
Ok that's interesting and makes sense!
This is one of your less weird posts;p
haw ana yabdi il-sabt =/
I don't know but i still have saturday blues!
Intetresting!
madri i never understand your posts
interesting, do tell me when you find out 
elsabt sebambot , el a7ad 3ankabot.. blah blah blah :Pp
Enigma, how can someone who calls herself Enigma be confused by someone called ThePurg? ;p
it crossed my mind before
OK Purg, here is how it works. There is this series called the Fibonacci series and . . . well, you being an Engineer, you can follow that thought to it's logical outcome and thus, Yom il Ahad becomes Sunday. This pre-ceded both Christianity and Islam, so you are totally right about eliminating the religious aspect, although the Romans might disagree.
But isn't Saturday Yom il Seven?
But isn't Saturday Yom il Seven?
Inlxpatr, whats with you and Mr. Fibo? I bet you half the people who read my blog do not know what that means,not everything in this world can be explained by it ;p
As for Saturday, in arabic, friday and saturday do not follow a number code, with the Arabic Name for Saturday (Sabt) being very close to the Jewish Sabbath, or we can just call it Ozzie Day.
As for Saturday, in arabic, friday and saturday do not follow a number code, with the Arabic Name for Saturday (Sabt) being very close to the Jewish Sabbath, or we can just call it Ozzie Day.
Sorry Purg, Sabt sounds a whole lot like Sept (seven in Latin) to me!
It crossed my mind .. but vener thought why?
so why?
so why?