[tuesday] child full of grace

Týr

The English and Scandinavian names are derived from the Nordic god Týr (Old English Tiw), with the Old High German: zîestag.

The Russian word is вторник [vtórnik], meaning "second"; that is, counting Tuesday as the second day of the week.

The Portuguese use numbers instead of pagan names and so their word for "Tuesday" is terça-feira.

Spanish: En martes, ni te cases ni te embarques [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.

"Tuesday's child is full of grace."

Tuesday is the usual day for elections in the United States. Super Tuesday is the day many American states hold their presidential primary elections.

In business, particularly office work, studies have shown that Tuesday is usually the most productive day of the week.

Black Tuesday, in the United States, refers to October 29, 1929, part of the great Stock Market Crash of 1929.

And don't forget Shrove Tuesday and Mardi Gras.

Personally, I like Tuesday. Monday I work to make pleasant but Tuesday has something about it which seems more brown, forest green and "woody" to me, more rounded in form and though the timetable might not bear me out, it seems less fraught.

It used to be my soft day, when the most pleasant things happened whilst the mayhem of the working week swirled about me.