Blursday

English 2025 March 25 Etymology en ine-pro *bʰel- shiny en blur Thursday,nw:Lynne Bowker Adaptation and Transcreation De-mystifying Translation: Introducing Translation to Non-translators Abingdon, Oxfordshire; New York, N.Y. w:Routledge 2023 129 https://archive.org/details/oapen-20.500.12657-61361/page/129/mode/1up 10.4324/9781003217718 978-1-032-10922-0 The word Blursday is formed using a technique called blending, which is when you take a word or the first part of a word (i.e., blur) and combine it with the second part of another word (i.e., -ursday from Thursday). The resulting word is often referred to as a portmanteau, and it expresses some combination of the meaning of the parts. popularized during the COVID-19 pandemic (beginning 2020) due to periods of lockdown or remote work when people felt that days had become undistinguishable.See, for example, w:Tanya Byron How to Tell a Covidiot from a Maskhole: Learning the Language of the Pandemic w:BBC Radio 4 https://web.archive.org/web/20241009203626/https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/4G0DhbmMBPN3nTlGkDLXGgC/how-to-tell-a-covidiot-from-a-maskhole-learning-the-language-of-the-pandemic July 2020 We take a look at some of our favourite plays on words during Covid-19 … Blursday: when all the days blur into one and you’re not sure if it’s Sunday or Thursday Pronunciation en /ˈblɜːzdeɪ/ /-di/ RP en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-Blursday.wav Southern England en /ˈblɜɹzˌdeɪ/ /-ˌdi/ GA en ɜː(ɹ)zdeɪ ɜː(ɹ)zdi en Blurs day Noun en humorous informal A day of the week not easily distinguished from other days. from late 20th c. en 30 May 1986 Top of the week Jim Hampton The Miami Herald Miami, Fla. The McClatchy Company section D (Weekend) 13D https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-miami-herald-blursday/168809291/ 0898-865X 2733685 Blah-day, Blues-day or Blurs-day? Get your colors crystal clear at the Bass Museum. en John Kitching John Foster Another Second Poetry Book Weak Week w:Oxford University Press 1989 1988 0199171211 33 https://archive.org/details/anothersecondpoe0000unse/page/32/mode/2up?q=%22blursday%22 Thursday – bit of a blursday en 2010 April Dave [William] Hnida Blursday Paradise General: Riding the Surge at a Combat Hospital in Iraq New York, N.Y. w:Simon & Schuster 213 https://archive.org/details/paradisegeneralr0000hnid/page/213/mode/1up 978-1-4165-9957-9 "Yeah, it's been a long day." Pausing, he looked up at the desert moon. "Say, what day is it, anyway?" / "Blursday, my friend, Every day is Blursday." en 2016 Ella Berthoud; w:Susan Elderkin depressed parent, having a The Story Cure: An A–Z of Books to Keep Kids Happy, Healthy and Wise Edinburgh w:Canongate Books 77 https://archive.org/details/storycureazofboo0000bert/page/77/mode/1up 978-1-78211-528-1 Sometimes his mother who has depression doesn't make it out of bed at all – or doesn't make it back from the night before till two days later – So when she fails to come home one evening, it's not a huge surprise. But once ‘Whensday’ becomes ‘Blursday’ and Blursday becomes ‘Lieday’, things start to get desperate. Stomachs are complaining, cockroaches are crawling around the kitchen, and the teachers are beginning to comment on Laurence’s propensity to fall asleep at his desk. en 3 April 2020 Heidi Pitlor Days without Name: On Time in the Time of Coronavirus w:Literary Hub https://lithub.com/days-without-name-on-time-in-the-time-of-coronavirus/ https://web.archive.org/web/20260919062243/https://lithub.com/days-without-name-on-time-in-the-time-of-coronavirus/ 19 September 2026 Without some self-imposed structure, it’s easy to feel a little untethered. A friend recently posted on Facebook: “For those who have lost track, today is Blursday the fortyteenth of Maprilay.” en 20 December 2020 Parisa__Rashidi 1340651134730559488 https://web.archive.org/web/20201220133416/https://twitter.com/Parisa__Rashidi/status/1340651134730559488 2020 summarized: waking up on Blursday and occasionally interacting with other people by shouting "You're on mute!" That is my most frequently used sentence by far this year. en 2021 w:Nick Mamatas The Man You Flee at Parties https://books.google.com/books?id=6EMoEAAAQBAJ&pg=PT184 Preston Grassmann Out of the Ruins London Titan Books 978-1-78909-739-9 It was an ingenious idea—your own, in fact—to celebrate Sweet Blursday in the classic fashion. Alone at home, sans pants, but connected to nearest and dearest via group video chat. en 2023 Sarit Kattan Gribetz; Lynn Kaye Thinking Temporally Today Sarit Kattan Gribetz; Lynn Kaye Time: A Multidisciplinary Introduction Walter de Gruyter part I (Time: An Interdisciplinary Overture) 10 https://books.google.com/books?id=aFXPEAAAQBAJ&pg=PA10 978-3-11-068905-1 2699-6235 “Monday,” ”Tuesday,” and ”Wednesday” have all become "Blursday." This new word highlights how central altered experiences and conceptions of time were to experiences of the pandemic – and to the way we live our lives and order our societies more generally. en 2024 Heather Willms Vocabulary Joanne Close Bridging the Reading Gap: Explicit Instruction that Supports Spelling, Phonics, Morphology, and Vocabulary Development in Grades 4–8 Markham, Ont. Pembroke Publishers 30 https://books.google.com/books?id=zjovEQAAQBAJ&pg=PA30 978-1-55138-367-5 Thirty years ago, if I told my grandma that the previous week had been full of blursdays (busy days that ran into each other) she would also have looked at me blankly as the term had not yet been coined. Translations day of the week not easily distinguished from other days Finnish: fi joku viikonpäivä Macedonian: mk See also en blue Monday References en Day