Saturday is the only English weekday that kept its Roman god: Saturn, untranslated. Spanish sábado and French samedi come from the Sabbath instead, while Korean and Japanese write 土, earth — Saturn's element. The rhyme puts Saturday's child to work; Thailand gives the day purple; Ghana names Saturday's boys Kwame.
- Named after
- Saturn
- In Korean · Japanese
- 土
- earth
- Thai day color
- Purple
- Akan names
- Kwame · Ama
- Burmese sign
- Naga, the serpent (Saturn)
- 13ths on this day
- 684
- per 400 years (4,800 months)
- Spanish · French
- sábado · samedi
The rhyme, colors, names and signs are traditions, not predictions. The day itself is plain arithmetic.