Duane Maxwell wrote:

>> In English, Saturday and Sunday are called "Weekend".
> 
> <pedant>
> Ah, yes, but *which* end? If you start on Monday, then technically that
> would be a weekend day too.
> </pedant>

pedant++: yes, but they would then be the respective ends of two different
(consecutive) weeks, and it's not "Weekends".

Yet another thread to prove the theorem that the length of a discussion is
inversely proportional to the importance of the topic :-)

Henrik