<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> <P> The astrological sign of the planet Mercury, ☿, represents Wednesday--Dies Mercurii to the Romans, it had similar names in Latin - derived languages, such as the Italian mercoledì (dì means "day"), the French mercredi, and the Spanish miércoles . In English, this became "Woden's Day", since the Roman god Mercury was identified by Woden in Northern Europe and it is especially aligned by the astrological signs of Gemini and Virgo . Wednesday is one of the only three days aside from Neptune and Pluto to be associated by another planet, which is Uranus . </P>

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