New names for the days of the week

As the year draws to a close, I'm reminded of a proposal I read somewhere.

The names for the days of the week in English, and most European languages, are based on ancient beliefs. The origin for these names (and even why we have 7 days in a week) is not so clear, but in the days when you could actually see the sky and people were trying to figure out how the universe worked, it's not surprising the heavenly bodies were used in the naming system.

Sunday	Sun	sun day
Monday	Moon	moon day
Tuesday	Mars	Tiu's day (Tiu is the god of war, as is Mars)
Wednesday	Mercury	Wodan's day (Woden means "violently insane headship")
Thursday	Jupiter	Thor's day (god of thunder)
Friday	Venus	Freya's day (Freya is the goddess of love, beauty, and prolific procreation)
Saturday	Saturn	Saturn's day (god of agriculture)

So considering most of us never even see the planets (due to air and light pollution), perhaps we need to consider new names for the days of the week. This proposal is quite mathematically neat (and uses Monday as the starting day).

Monday	Oneday
Tuesday	TwoDay
Wednesday	Threeday
Thursday	Fourday
Friday	Fiveday
Saturday	Sixday
Sunday	Sevenday

There's actually a language that has such a system - Chinese. The names and meanings are:

Sunday	星期日	Star period day
Monday	星期一	Star period one
Tuesday	星期二	Star period two
Wednesday	星期三	Star period three
Thursday	星期四	Star period four
Friday	星期五	Star period five
Saturday	星期六	Star period six

There's an interesting history of Japanese and Chinese day names here: Bathrobe's Days of the Week in Chinese, Japanese & Vietnamese. According to that site, the Chinese used a 10-day per week system up until 1912 when the imperial system collapsed.

So what do you think? Is it time to re-consider the names of the week to a simpler and more logical system?

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