How Wednesday Became Hump Day
Last Wednesday, in my post, I posed the question, “Why is Wednesday called hump day?”
I had searched Google for an answer to that question and received an AI response that the expression could not be attributed to a specific person.
I wasn’t satisfied with that because I knew there had to be more to it than that. As Paul Harvey would have said, “Here is the rest of the story.”
MUCH MORE TO THE ANSWER
I dived deeper to find information from human sources. A quick perusal of the SERPS showed a response a few years ago from someone on Quora who stated that the phrase originated in 1965 from a man standing around a water cooler at a Dupont plant.
I could find nothing to back up that assertion. The same Quora respondent also said that in 1975 J. J. Cale wrote a song titled Friday, and that the phrase “Wednesday’s hump day,” was part of the lyrics.
Intrigued, I tried to find that song and found it mentioned in various Google SERPs, but I couldn’t find the lyrics or other information. Next, I went to Lyrics.com and searched there.
Apparently, Cale wasn’t the only one who used the phrase in a song. In fact, the search engine at Lyrics showed “968 lyrics and 126 artists matching the “hump day” search string.
At that point, I decided I’d wasted enough time on the quest, but I did have fun making a cute graphic I’ll use in future Wednesday posts.
TAKEAWAY TRUTH
Being curious eats up a lot of time that I probably could have used in a better pursuit—like working on my book in progress. Do you ever get distracted like that?
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Source: https://slingwords.blogspot.com/2025/02/how-wednesday-became-hump-day.html
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