- published: 04 Feb 2014
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Sunday (i/ˈsʌndeɪ/ or /ˈsʌndi/) is the day of the week between Saturday and Monday. For most Christians, Sunday is observed as a day for worship of God and rest, due to the belief that it is Lord's Day, the day of Christ's resurrection.
Sunday is a day of rest in most Western countries, part of 'the weekend'. In most Muslim countries, and Israel, Sunday is a working day.
According to the Hebrew calendars, traditional Christian calendars, Sunday is literally the "first day" of the week. According to the International Organization for Standardization ISO 8601 Sunday is the seventh and last day of the week.
No century in the Gregorian calendar starts on a Sunday, whether its first year is '00 or '01. The Jewish New Year never falls on a Sunday. (The rules of the Hebrew calendar are designed such that the first day of Rosh Hashanah will never occur on the first, fourth, or sixth day of the Jewish week; i.e., Sunday, Wednesday, or Friday).
The English noun Sunday derived sometime before 1250 from sunedai, which itself developed from Old English (before 700) Sunnandæg (literally meaning "sun's day"), which is cognate to other Germanic languages, including Old Frisian sunnandei, Old Saxon sunnundag, Middle Dutch sonnendach (modern Dutch zondag), Old High German sunnun tag (modern German Sonntag), and Old Norse sunnudagr (Danish and Norwegian søndag, Icelandic sunnudagur and Swedish söndag). The Germanic term is a Germanic interpretation of Latin dies solis ("day of the sun"), which is a translation of the Ancient Greek heméra helíou. The p-Celtic Welsh language also translates the Latin "day of the sun" as dydd Sul.
Well, I'm trying to read my Sunday Times; it costs a
nickel & 12 dimes
I bought it late Saturday night; I've almost finished
but not quite
It weighed a ton it seemed to me that each one of them
must take a tree to
make
& also, I should think, it takes about a gallon of ink
Right off the bat in Section One: who, when, where, how
& what got done
The outlook's bleak, it's clear to see; Section 1
depresses me
All the heavy duty news; it gives you the over-informed
blues
& I'm so relieved when 1's all through; thumb through
1, get on to 2
Now I'm a show-biz kinda guy; the business is my life &
that's no lie
2's one of my favorite parts: Entertainment & Leisure
Arts
Which movie's great, which Broadway play; exclamation
points the way
The next time that things get this great is Sports way
up in Section Eight
I hoist the Times into my lap & take some time to heave
some crap
I guess some guys dig Section 3 but Business bores the
pants off me
If you want boring, here's a chore: Week in Review,
that Section 4
& who in the hell wants a review? Once was enough for
me, thank you
After 3 & 4 it's clear you want to get away from here
Escape to somewhere & you'll try; it's time to Travel;
Section 5
Guatamala's always quaint although the right-wing death
squads ain't
Satanic cults down the block; better stay at home,
escape culture shock
The Magazine is Section 6 with food & wine, full-color
pics
So sexy that you gotta stare at all the advertisements
in there
So glossy that the pages stick; flipping one at a
time's a trick
The crossword will keep you up late; & it's camp if
your kids are overweight
Section7, Book Review; it comes with me into the loo
The TV section; that's 11; naturally that goes with 7
7, 11, that's it; I read them there when 'ere I sit &
read
8 reviews of those who write; leads one to think that
one day one might
You need a job? That's Section 9. You're not jobless?
Hey, that's fine
Section 10 is Real Estate. You're not homeless? Hey,
that's great
This town is so strange; in this town life's subject to
change
What goes up comes down again. Hold on to 9, hold on to
10
Well, it's Tuesday & I'm still not done with Sunday's
Times, son of a gun
Monday & Tuesday's still unread; I could have read War
& Peace instead
A great relief I do not doubt when it's time to throw
all of these Times out
Tomorrow I'll buy Wednesday's Times; it's just one
nickel.just one
nickel.just one nickel & three dimes