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Wednesday today.
But everyone says Wensday.
1. Who will dare start spelling it the modern phonetic way?
2. When did people start saying Wensday instead of Wednesday?I see the Old English was Wōdnesdæg
and Middle English was WednesdeiBut when did people stop pronouncing the d in Wedn-?
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