Monday Monday (not just a pretty song)

Traditionally the second day of the week, though now the first, Monday is the Day of the Moon called Mnandae by Anglo-Saxons *** The Monday Effect is the trend in stock markets for share returns to be lower than average on Mondays compared to other days of the week *** Black Monday--Easter Monday, April 14, 1360, when the troops and horses of Edward III perished from cold on the outskirts of Paris *** The Dunmonw Flitch is the side of bacon awarded on Whit Monday to a couple in Great Dunmow, Essex, who had not repented their marriage for a year and a day *** The Monday Club is a luncheon club, founded in 1961 by a group of Conservatives, united in opposition to Macmillan's 'wind of change speech' on Black Monday *** Monday's Child is fair of face *** Black Monday is the public school slang for the first Monday of a new term. *** Plough Monday, the first Monday after Twelfth Night, was the day when agricultural workers resumed their toil after Christmas *** Americans use the term 'Monday morning quarterback' to describe the breed of armchair athlete who spends Monday criticising the actions of their team during the preceding weekend *** Black Monday, Oct 19, 1987, when the Dow Jones Average fell by 22.6 percent *** At Scottish universities, Oatmeal Monday was a day mid-term when fathers of poor students would bring supplies of food (often oatmeal) to sustain their children *** The superstitious consider Monday a bad day to die, give money; move, or change jobs. Specifically unlucky Mondays include the first Monday of April and August, and the last Monday of December. --Schott's Almanac