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	Today, there are eight names for the days of the week in standard German, Sonntag, Montag, Dienstag, Mittwoch, Donnerstag, Freitag, and Samstag or Sonnabend. Dialects have other names, but we will not concern ourselves with those names. However, in old ~~records~~, scribes often used symbols to indicate the days of the week instead of writing the entire name. These symbols are not abbreviations and each has other uses, such as representing metals and planets (hence, their association with the days of the week).  These images are from a church book in Bavaria from around 1715. The symbols are:		Today, there are eight names for the days of the week in standard German, Sonntag, Montag, Dienstag, Mittwoch, Donnerstag, Freitag, and Samstag or Sonnabend. Dialects have other names, but we will not concern ourselves with those names. However, in old documents, scribes often used symbols to indicate the days of the week instead of writing the entire name. These symbols are not abbreviations and each has other uses, such as representing metals and planets (hence, their association with the days of the week).  These images are from a church book in Bavaria from around 1715. The symbols are:

	;Sonntag  [[Image:Sund xx.JPG\|54x58px\|Sund xx.JPG]]		;Sonntag  [[Image:Sund xx.JPG\|54x58px\|Sund xx.JPG]]