Why Don’t We Pronounce The First D In Wednesday?

Cool Weird Awesome with Brady Carlson
04/01/2023 3 min Temporada 5 Episodio 920

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It's the first Wednesday of the new year. How come many of us don’t pronounce it “WED-ns-day”? Plus: around this time in 1939, Lyra Ferguson of Missouri set a goal of traveling to each of the then-48 states and finding a job in each of them, for just one week.
Why 'Wednesday' Isn't Pronounced the Way It's Spelled (HowStuffWorks)
45 Jobs in 45 States (Weird Universe)
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