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How to spell saturday

hear itsat·ur·day/'sætərdi/nounSounds

What it means: The seventh day of the week.

In a sentence: On Saturday, we go to the park to play.

The part people get wrong

Often misspelled as saterday or saterdAy.

Same family: weekend, Sunday, Friday, weekday, Saturday night. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: Saturday is named after the Roman god Saturn, making it the only English weekday name that still clearly comes from a Roman deity. In Old English it was called 'Sæternesdæg,' which literally meant 'Saturn's day.'

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