Monday, Monday

Origin:


bef. 1000; ME Mone(n)day, OE mōn(an)dæg, trans. of LL lūnae diēs moon's day
 
 
Do you know how many songs there are about Mondays?

Manic Monday by the Bangles
I don't like Mondays by the Boomtown Rats
Call It Stormy Monday by T-Bone Walker
Monday Blues by Mizuhashi Takashi
Blue Monday by New Order
Monday Monday by the Mamas and the Papas
Monday Morning by Fleetwood Mac

No wonder Mondays get a bad rap - some of the lyrics of the songs set the day up for failure. 

In Manic Monday, a young lady stressing out about being late for work and trying in vain to get there on time (let's not talk about the sex in the end of the song there are young eyes reading).

Monday Monday, lyrics are just as bad - Monday Monday, can't trust that day, but whenever Monday comes, you find me crying all the time.

The word for Monday is derived via the ancient Anglo-Saxon/Germanic tongue from the word for Moon, "monandaeg". Most other Western and Southern European languages use their own derivative of the word, "moon", as a root for "Monday".

Monday has often been called a blue day. Blue is also frequently associated with depression. Since Monday is typically the first workday of the week and workers must look over a long depressing stretch of time until their next day-long break it has often been refered to as a blue day.

Many cultures see Monday also as an unlucky day, even as a day when people become insane. This may have something to do with the day's association with the moon. The moon has been called inconstant, due to its tendency to wax and wane. The Latin word for moon comes even into our own language to designate lunacy.

So you see - we're destined to have bad Mondays even before we get out of bed.