AHC: Unique Day of the Week Initials

In Modern day English, the days of the week begin with
SMTWTFS. In order to use single letters for abbreviations and not conflict, the best I've seen is UMTWRFS.

The modern day Romance languages have days starting with M for both Tuesday and Wednesday, the Germanic tongues all have Saturday and Sunday both start with S. Even old English which used a Thorn for the first letter of Thursday, still had the Sæternesdæg/Sunnandæg issue. As far as I can tell from looking at http://www.omniglot.com/language/time/days.htm , the closest place to England with unique Day of the Week Initials is the Faroe Islands.

So with a POD of 500AD, how can we end up with the language spoken in OTL London have unique day of the week initials?
 
Would it have to be a seven-day-week calendar or could it also be a six-day-week calendar?

(The best I could offer is an MTONFS naming system which I devised for a six-day-week calendar, but I guess that's not exactly what you're looking for. :eek:)
 
In Modern day English, the days of the week begin with
SMTWTFS. In order to use single letters for abbreviations and not conflict, the best I've seen is UMTWRFS.

The modern day Romance languages have days starting with M for both Tuesday and Wednesday, the Germanic tongues all have Saturday and Sunday both start with S. Even old English which used a Thorn for the first letter of Thursday, still had the Sæternesdæg/Sunnandæg issue. As far as I can tell from looking at http://www.omniglot.com/language/time/days.htm , the closest place to England with unique Day of the Week Initials is the Faroe Islands.

So with a POD of 500AD, how can we end up with the language spoken in OTL London have unique day of the week initials?

Actually in Dutch there are two conflict zaterdag (Saturday) and zondag (Sunday) and dinsdag (Tuesday) and donderdag (Thursday), in German it is Dienstag (Tuesday) and Donnerstag (Thursday) and Samstag (Saturday) and Sonntag (Sunday).
So basically exactly the same issue, but different starting letters due to phonetic reasons.

In short the closest linguistic relatives (together with Frisian, but I'm from the exact opposite side (the South) of the country and I don't speak that language), probably can't help you.
 
Hmm. First thing which comes to mind is to borrow a concept from the Romance languages and have the process of Christianisation lead to 'Sunday' becoming something along the lines of 'Lordsday/Lorsday' (Saturday might also become 'Sabaday' for the Sabbath, but that's close enough that the change may not occur).

Of the other days of the week, we've kept the latin 'Moon Day', but the other days are named after the gods Tiw, Woden, Thor and Freya. Mars can't keep her spot for Marday, while Jupterday or the equivalent is just weird sounding, so I think the best option is for the god Ullr/Ydalir to become linked to Mars instead of Tiw, thus giving us something along the lines of 'Ullarsday'.

Taken in combination, this would therefore give: MUWTFSL
 
Germanic tongues all have Saturday and Sunday both start with S.
No, we don't. Lördag & Söndag don't begin with the same letter. Tisdag and Torsdag do though. Have Tisdag mutate into Isdag and Bob's your uncle.
 
In Modern day English, the days of the week begin with
SMTWTFS. In order to use single letters for abbreviations and not conflict, the best I've seen is UMTWRFS.

The modern day Romance languages have days starting with M for both Tuesday and Wednesday, the Germanic tongues all have Saturday and Sunday both start with S.

Could be worse.

In Catalan -which is a modern Romance language- the days of the week are: dilluns, dimarts, dimecres, dijous, divendres, dissabte, diumenge.
As you can guess, no single letter abbreviations. Double letter abbreviations are also somewhat tricky as well: dl. dt. dc. dj. dv. ds. dm.
 
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