What is the French for Wednesday?
Wednesday novel "American Gods". In the 1945 John Steinbeck novel "Sweet Thursday", the titular day is preceded by "Lousy Wednesday". Wednesday is sometimes informally referred to as "hump day" in North America, a reference to the fact that Wednesday is the middle day—or "hump"—of a typical work week. The astrological sign of the planet Mercury, ☿, represents Wednesday—"Dies Mercurii" to the Romans, it had similar names in Latin-derived languages, such as the Italian "mercoledì" ("dì" means "day"), the French "mercredi", and the Spanish "miércoles". In English, this became "Woden's Day", since the Roman god Mercury was identified by Woden in Northern
The World Is What It Is The World Is What It Is The World Is What It Is: The Authorized Biography of V. S. Naipaul is a biography of the Nobel Prize-winning author V. S. Naipaul by Patrick French. It was published in 2008 (by Picador in the UK and Knopf in the USA). The title is a quotation from Naipaul's book "A Bend in the River". "The world is what it is; men who are nothing, who allow themselves to become nothing, have no place in it." French deals with Naipaul's family background and his life from his birth in 1932 until his second marriage