<P> In American culture many Catholic and Protestant churches schedule study or prayer meetings on Wednesday nights . The sports calendar in many American public schools reflects this, reserving Mondays and Thursdays for girls' games and Tuesdays and Fridays for boys' games while generally avoiding events on Wednesday evening . </P> <P> In Hindu mythology, Budha is the god of Mercury (planet), mid-week Wednesday, and of Merchants and merchandise . According to the Thai solar calendar, the color associated with Wednesday is green . </P> <P> In the folk rhyme "Wednesday's child is full of woe", reciting the days of the week, Solomon 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 . Wednesday Friday Addams is a member of the fictional family 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 and Neil Gaiman's novel American Gods . In the 1945 John Steinbeck novel Sweet Thursday, the titular day is preceded by "Lousy Wednesday". </P> <P> Wednesday is sometimes informally referred to as "hump day" in North America, a reference to the fact that Wednesday is the middle day--or "hump"--of a typical work week . </P>

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