Are you boys sure you are right? We already had a name for a "week". A week was called a "week". Calling a "week" a "sennight" is like finding another name for a "dozen dunkin' donuts".

What I think is that tsuwm's "worthless word" got "sennight" confused with "sextantnight" which was the one night of the week that the ancient Victorians engaged in carnal sex.

And wofahulicodoc is right too. A "huitaine" is eight days - the prescribed length of time between the wild sexual encounters of the wild Victorian French.

Hey! Maybe a "hastilude" is the lenght of time that the Victorian Inuits waited until...,you know, the days are a lot longer up at the North pole and so...

Maybe we should just go and ask Hogmaster Bingley.

Last edited by themilum; 04/27/2006 4:50 AM.