I find this thoroughly unfair, and hereby vow to correct this injustice.
I haven’t done much thinking about this, to be quite honest, and so no names have been decided upon, other than my decision to refer to the current week as Logust. Furthermore, days will now be referred to solely as Monday, Tuesday etc. No more of this silly 1st of January numbering rubbish. Thus, today is Wednesday of Logust.
I firmly believe that this will be not only a more just system, but also a far more confusing one.
Now you’re just thinking inside the box. I want to do away with months entirely. Even so, I like your suggestions and will probably use some of them sprinkled through the year.
To clarify: making sense isn’t the primary purpose, rather the opposite. I want the confusion.
Join the Catholic church, they have names for all the Sundays and some other days too. You could expand that to the week, i.e., 3rd week after Pentecost, etc.
Use the French Revolutionary Calendar, and then the months consist of three weeks of ten days, although the weeks are technically numbered. Still, unique names for every day of the year!
tlh, né le mois de Floréal, troisième decade, jour de duodi (la bourrache)
I know the OP was about naming the weeks and not about alternative calendars, the Tranquility Calendar has always stuck in my head since I read about it on Omni magazine a couple of decades ago.
Remembering fifty two names could be tricky.
Hello mum me and the kids are going to visit you in Colonweek…
Er thats wk49 isn’t it?
No wk49s eczemaweek…
It’s not names, but in Scandihoovia weeks are numbered on calendars. For instance, in this area kids always get their autumn break from school in Week 40.
I’d say the boring reason is that people can easily memorize a sequence of 12 names but would have more difficulty with a sequence of 52. Hell, we number the days of the month, and there are no more than 31 of those.
52 weeks a year is no good. Too damn many names to remember, unless you’re some kind of obsessive-compulsive.
4 weeks a month is no good either. Except for non-leap Febs., there’s always a few extra days at the end.
A week is unlike a day or a month because it is a strictly relative measure, a scheme to organize days. Yes, yes, you say, aren’t all time periods just part of a similar scheme? True. But days and months are a lot easier to use when you want to point to a fixed reference - January, for example, or Friday the 9th. Saying “the 2nd week in January” is still a lot easier than calling it Capricornus Tertius or Lizzie’s Flannels or whatever.