# A quickie poll:  \[#1\]"WEEKend" or \[#2\]"weekEND"?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-quickie-poll-1-weekend-or-2-weekend/462951>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [September 10, 2008, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-quickie-poll-1-weekend-or-2-weekend/462951 "2008-09-10T15:51:41Z")\
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**Author:** ![Risha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/5fc32e/32.png) [@Risha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Risha)\
**Post date:** [September 11, 2008, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-quickie-poll-1-weekend-or-2-weekend/462951/21 "2008-09-11T15:05:43Z")

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> [@gigi](#):
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> I feel like I don’t stress either syllable but if I had to choose, WEEKend.
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> Northeast US

What she said (and from the same region).

I just sat here for a couple of minutes saying “weekend, weekend, weekEND, WEEKend, weekend” over and over, trying to hear the difference. I’m pretty sure that it counts as #1, but I think that I’m actually saying something like “weekknd”.

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