Editing Wednesday (section)

==Cultural usage==
According to the [[Thai solar calendar]], the color associated with Wednesday is green.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://dukelanguage.com/2014/01/color-meaning/|title=Did you know that in Thailand, there's an auspicous color for every… |publisher=Duke Language School|location=Bangkok, Thailand|date=2 January 2014|access-date=12 December 2016}}</ref>

In the folk rhyme [[Monday's Child]], "Wednesday's child is full of woe". In the rhyme [[Solomon Grundy (nursery rhyme)|Solomon Grundy]], Grundy was "married on Wednesday". In ''[[Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day]]'', the disagreeable nature of the weather is attributed to it being "Winds-Day" (a play on ''Wednesday''). In [[Richard Brautigan]]'s ''[[In Watermelon Sugar]]'' Wednesday is the day when the sun shines grey.{{Full citation needed|date=November 2011}}<!--Publication information and a page reference needed.--> [[Wednesday Addams|Wednesday Friday Addams]] is a member of the fictional family [[The Addams Family (1964 TV series)|The Addams Family]]. Her name is derived from the idea that Wednesday's child is full of woe. Additionally, Wednesday sometimes appears as a character's name in literary works. These include ''Thursday's fictions'' by [[Richard James Allen]], Wednesday Next from the [[Thursday Next]] series by [[Jasper Fforde]] and [[Neil Gaiman]]'s novel ''[[American Gods]]''. In the 1945 [[John Steinbeck]] novel ''[[Sweet Thursday]]'', the titular day is preceded by "Lousy Wednesday".

Wednesday is sometimes informally referred to as "[[wikt:hump day|'''hump day''']]" in [[North America]], a reference to the fact that Wednesday is the middle day—or "hump"—of a typical work week.<ref name="Oxford">{{cite web|url=http://oxforddictionaries.com/us/definition/american_english/hump-day|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131104214031/http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/us/definition/american_english/hump-day|url-status=dead|archive-date=November 4, 2013|title=Definition of hump day in English|work=Oxford Dictionaries|publisher=[[Oxford University Press]]|access-date=3 September 2013}}</ref> [[Lillördag|<span dir="ltr" lang="sv">''Lillördag''</span>]], or "little Saturday", is a Nordic tradition of turning Wednesday evening into a small weekend-like celebration.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Woolsey|first=Barbara|date=2 February 2025|title=Lillördag: Sweden's workers de-stress with 'Little Saturday'|url=https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20210129-lillrdag-swedens-workers-destress-with-little-saturday|access-date=5 February 2021|website=BBC|language=en|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210205172655/https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20210129-lillrdag-swedens-workers-destress-with-little-saturday|archive-date=5 February 2021}}</ref> Humpday is also a name of a [[Humpday|2009 film]].

In [[Poland]], Wednesday night is often referred by young people as "time of [[vodka]]", after song by Bartosz Walaszek "Środowa noc to wódy czas"