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Well from some countries' point of view, Monday is the first day of the week.
I mean, the word we use to describe Saturdays and Sundays is Weekend (周末), so it actually makes sense for Monday to be the first of the week.
Btw, Calandar apps have this option in settings:
Which has a dropdown menu of options:
Apparantly, some countries use Saturday as the first day of the week? 🤷♂️
I prefer Monday as well, but "end" doesn't always mean "last point in a series". it also means the furthest point of something, but could be on any direction, hence "both ends" is a thing. so weekends can mean the two days on either side of the week, Sunday being first and Saturday being last.
I know that Arabic also has numbers for most days, 1 for Sunday, all the way to 5 for Thursday, but instead of 6 and 7 they named Friday "congregation" (the day Muslims congregate to pray together) and Saturday "sabbath" interestingly enough.
But a weeks ARE a series of days, and thus have a beginning and an end. A stick can have two ends, a week has a clear beginning. And it's on Monday.
But wouldn't it have to be called "weekends" for your explanation to work?
probably. but then weekends as we say today would have to be called weekendses.