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PostPosted: Apr 14, 2009 - 06:48 PM Reply with quoteBack to top
It bothers me because in more traditional usage, dating at least from Roman times, “black” in front of a day of the week conveys something bad. In the United States, “black” days of the week are associated with trouble in the stock market.

Black Tuesday: October 29, 1929, the day of the stock market crash that ushered in the Great Depression
Black Thursday: October 24, 1929, the day of the market downturn a few days before the big crash.
Black Monday: October 19, 1987, another stock market crash.

Other countries have similar calendar expressions to commemorate terrible things:

Black July: 1983 pogrom of Tamil population in Sri Lanka in which 1,000 died.
Black September: 1970 “era of regrettable events” during which 7,000 to 8,000 people died in Jordan as a result of hostilities involving the PLO Rolling Eyes Rolling Eyes Rolling Eyes
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