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those filthy danes coming over here and washing their bodies (quokk.au)
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[–] mumblerfish@lemmy.world 19 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Saturday = Lördag, in Swedish, the origin of the word has the meaning of "water", but came to mean ~" bathday".

[–] Caffie@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

Etymology of laugardagr:

Compound of laug (“bath”) +‎ dagr (“day”), literally "bath day". The former element is cognate with English lye

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Seems crazy to have everyone bathe on the same day... Should have a rotating schedule imo

[–] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

But then who's going to scrub your back?