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    'But a child that is born on the Sabbath Day
     Is bonny and blithe(sp?), Good and Gay'
    
    That's what my Dad used to say (he was a Sunday child!)
    Julie

    
    "But a child that is born on the Sabbath Day,
    Is fair and wise, good and gay"
    
    That's what mum told me!
    
    Marlene

    Monday's child is full of grace,
    Tuesday's child is fair of face,
    Wednesday's child is full of woe,
    Thursday's child has far to go,
    Friday's child is loving and giving,
    Saturday's child works hard to its living,
    But, a child that's born on the Sabbath Day
    is fair, and wise, and good and gay........
    
    
    E.T.

    
    Boy, a lot of interesting variations!  In my son's nursery rhyme book
    is was written as:
    
    "But the child that is born on the Sabbath day
     Is bonny and good, and blithe and gay."
    
    Sandy (Wednesday's child, mother of a Sunday) :^}
    
    

    >If any of you have All-in-1, you can figure out what day of the
    >week you were born on.
     
    You can also find out using this magic DCL command:

    $ WRITE SYS$OUTPUT F$EDIT(F$CVTIME("dd-mmm-yyyy" , , "WEEKDAY"), "UPCASE")
    
    Where dd-mmm-yyyy is the way you format your birth date. Be sure to
    enclose it in double quotes.
    
    Deb
    P.S. In case any one is interested, here is a FORTRAN-IV program
    to calculate the day of the week.
                                                       
C
C	DOW.FOR
C
C	Program to calculate the day of the week
C
	DIMENSION DOW(7)
	DATA DOW/3HSUN,3HMON,3HTUE,3HWED,3HTHU,3HFRI,3HSAT/
C
C
	WRITE (5,*) ' ENTER DATE IN NN/NN/NNNN FORMAT'
	READ (5,1) J,K,I
1	FORMAT(2(I2,1X),I4)
 
	IF (J.EQ.0) GO TO 999
	IF (J.LE.2) GO TO 20
 
	M=J-2
	L=I
	GO TO 30
 
20	M=J+10
	L=I-1
 
 
30	IC=L/100
	ID=L-100*IC
	N=1+MOD((13*M-1)/5+K+ID+ID/4+IC/4-2*IC+77,7)
	WRITE(5,40) J,K,I,DOW(N)
 
40	FORMAT(1X,2(I2,1H/),I4,3X,A3)
 
999	CALL EXIT
	END
    

This is along the same lines as the base note and happened to come up at
dinner yesterday.  My son asked me if I knew what the name Steven meant.
Do any of you have one of those name books in which you can look up a 
person's name and get it's meaning?  The only one he knew was his teacher's
first name:  Barbara.  She told the kids in his class that it means 
"Strange One".

My apologies to Barbara Ives and all the rest of the wonderful Barbaras out
there.  Since our daycare person's name is Barbara, I have to admit we got a
good chuckle out of it!!

Thanks,

Jill

    I think the name 'Stephen' means 'Crown' or 'Crowned One'.
    
    Julie

re: .6

Barbara means more like "stranger" than "strange one".  It has the same 
root as "barbarian".

Ray

    Re:  Wednesday's child
    
    I thought I read a new version of this that had a different saying
    for Wednesday's child.  One that wasn't so negative as being full
    of woe.  Anyone else remember this?
    
    Jan

    Re .6
    
    My sister in law has the book, but I can't reach her.  There is a notes
    file for BABYNAMES... maybe some there knows?
    
    Mary
    

    re .9
    
    Jan,
    
    I've heard variations such as "Wednesday's child will ne'er have
    foe" etc. etc. - anything you can think of that rhymes with "woe",
    but always feel, being a Wednesday's child myself, that its a bit
    of a cop out.
    
    If that's what the traditional rhyme was - then why change it -
    unless you really take it to heart!
    
    My sister BTW was born on Sunday and is the most horrible, nasty,
    rude sibling you could wish for (not really, ouch, stop it
    Michelle..:-)  I always say it was foresight that she was on the
    way that caused me to be born on a Wednesday :-)  As you can see
    - I can't take it seriously.