First Day & Spelling

What is the first day of the week? Dangerous Dave talks about the majority say "Monday". Plus, what words do we have trouble spelling? We have the list.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Please sup deeper in the din with dangerous Day. It's Monday,
which means the weekend's over or is at the beginning
of another week? What is it? What is the first
day of the week? Well, actually, people are split. In
a poll, fifty four percent of Americans said Monday and
forty five percent said Sunday, possibly because US calendars begin

(00:21):
on Sunday. One percent said it could be Tuesday or
Saturday or who knows. But among non Americans, eighty six
percent of people said Monday is the first day of
the week, only fourteen percent said Sunday, one percent said
another day. And according to Date and Time dot com,
Sunday is the start of the week at most of
the Western Hemisphere, US, Canada, Brazil, Argentina, Mexico goes with Monday.

(00:46):
Monday is the start of the most in Europe and Asia,
along with Australia. Africa has split half and half. Saturday
considered the first day of the week in Iran, Afghanistan
and SAMOI ya huh, that's crazy. I guess I alwosty
think if Sunday is the end of the weekend, even
though I know Sunday is the first day of the week.
Monday's the first day of the work week, well saying

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that we work as just relative deeper in the winner
of this year's Script's National Spelling Bee was a fourteen
year old Shrey Peric from San Bernardino, California. Winning word
was bromocryptine. It's a polypeptide alkaloid that's derived from ergot
and mimics the activity of bopamine. So there you go,

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roma kryptine. All the brilliant kids participated would be embarrassed
at our next story. By the way, that's embarrassed emb
a r R as sed embarrassed. See I'm good I am.
The website unscrambler dot com look to the Internet Search
and Data that put out a list of the most
problematic words American spell associated with how do you spell

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or how to spell? Most misspelled words bougie, followed by favorite,
thorough business, tomorrow, because definitely, beautiful, niece, and separate. They
also came up with the most challenging word for each
state to spell, Believe it or not. In Minnesota, ukulele
tops the list. In North Dakota was audios. So I

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guess when we're trying to spell goodbye to our friends.
We have trouble with audios adios by the way, in
case you're wondering the craziest one. The one that I
thought was kind of funny was Nevada. They had trouble
spelling teacher. Well, that's odd to They can for another
episode of Deeper in the Den with Dangerous Dave, play here.