Every Thursday I go swimming from 1-4pm.
Thursday was named after the Norse god of Thunder, Thor.
Hopefully there isn't thunder or rain when I go swimming this Thursday.
Thursday is also the fourth day of the week.
That's right, its also my favorite day since it's when I start to unwind for the weekend.
Television in the United States
Television is one of the major mass media of the United States. , household ownership of television sets in the country is 96.7%, with approximately 114,200,000 American households owning at least one television set as of August 2013. The majority of households have more than one set. The peak ownership percentage of households with at least one television set occurred during the 1996–97 season, with 98.4% ownership.
As a whole, the television networks that broadcast in the United States are the largest and most
, German "Mittwoch", Low German "Middeweek" and Finnish "keskiviikko" all mean mid-week.
- Thursday: Old English "Þūnresdæg" (), meaning 'Þunor's day'. Þunor means thunder or its personification, the Norse god known in Modern English as Thor. Similarly Dutch "donderdag", German "Donnerstag" ('thunder's day'), Finnish "torstai", and Scandinavian "Torsdag" ('Thor's day'). Thor's day corresponds to Latin