Norse god has a day of his own
IN OUR piece questioning the use of the “janitor’s apostrophe” in the phrase “Tue’s night” (30 April), we apparently betrayed a lamentable ignorance of Norse mythology.
“Tuesday is named after the god Tyr or Tiw,” Stephen Ashton admonishes us. “So Tuesday night is the night of Tiw, or Tiw’s night.”
Kevon Kenna is quick to agree: “If Thursday is Thor’s Day, Wednesday is Woden’s Day, and Tuesday is Tiw’s Day,” he asserts, “it may well be correct to write ‘Tue’s Night’ for ‘Tiw’s Night’.”
Tiw, we have learned, was a god…
