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Re:Someday aliens will land and all will be fine until we ex... by hunter2_ on Sunday September 25, 2022 @05:53PM (#32976735)
Right, I (in the US) always figured "end" in the word "weekend" was akin to the two ends of a line segment, the two ends of a bar, etc.

To instead think of "end" in the word "weekend" as the opposite of "start" is to use a completely different definition of the word "end".

I wonder if "weekend" therefore has two definitions, given the split dependency.

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Re:Someday aliens will land and all will be fine until we ex... by glandium on Sunday September 25, 2022 @06:09PM (#32976896)
It feels to me that for "end" to be used as the two ends of the week, it would be weekends (plural), not weekend (singular).
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