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Because I dont have to work
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It is actually a corruption of "God" Friday ie the special Friday when God sacrificed His Son, Jesus, for the sins of the world. The words "good" and "god" had almost identical sounds in Middle English (eg God be with ye became Goodbye) (The Dutch have the same problem as English ie Goede Frijdag is Good Friday, but probably deriving from Gode Frijdag "God's Friday") In German it is "Karfreitag" or "Suffering Friday". The remaining Germanic countries (Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Faroe Islands, Iceland ) all use a term that means "Long Friday". In Italian it is "Venerdi' Santo" in Spanish "Viernes Santo" in French "Vendredi Saint", all meaning Holy Friday ,in Indonesian Jumat Agung ("Great Friday").
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There are several theories about the origin of this term. 1. This is "an archaic sense of good, synonymous with holy." (Morris Dictionary of Word and Phrase Origins by William and Mary Morris.) 2. "Some scholars argue that 'good' is a corruption of 'God' and that early Christians commemorating the sad event called it God's Friday." (Sacred Origins of Profound Things by Charles Panati.) 3. "It is possible that the appellative was chosen simply to distinguish the day from all the other Fridays throughout the year." (How Did It Begin.) And, perhaps the best explanation: 4. "Others claim that 'good' signifies the bounty of blessings - indeed, salvation - Christ won for human kind by his sacrifice." (Sacred Origins of Profound Things.)
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