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Fix weekday variant ordering: EY should be variant 1, not IY#9

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@ptarjan ptarjan commented Feb 25, 2026

Duplicate of cmusphinx/cmudict#50 — submitted here per discussion in cmusphinx/cmudict#53 about which repo is canonical.

Summary

  • Swap variant ordering for FRIDAY, MONDAY, SATURDAY, TUESDAY, and WEDNESDAY so the standard EY /eɪ/ pronunciation ("-day") is the main entry
  • Fix THURSDAY'S which had IY as the main entry despite THURSDAY itself already having EY first
  • Now all 7 days of the week consistently have EY as the main entry

Problem

Five of the seven days of the week had the reduced IY /iː/ pronunciation ("-dee") listed as the main entry, with the standard EY /eɪ/ ("-day") as variant (1). This was inconsistent — SUNDAY and THURSDAY already correctly had EY first.

Word Before (main) After (main)
FRIDAY F R AY1 D IY0 F R AY1 D EY2
MONDAY M AH1 N D IY0 M AH1 N D EY2
SATURDAY S AE1 T ER0 D IY0 S AE1 T IH2 D EY2
TUESDAY T UW1 Z D IY0 T UW1 Z D EY2
WEDNESDAY W EH1 N Z D IY0 W EH1 N Z D EY2
SUNDAY S AH1 N D EY2 (unchanged)
THURSDAY TH ER1 Z D EY2 (unchanged)

Evidence

All major dictionaries list /eɪ/ as the primary pronunciation:

  • Cambridge: /ˈwenz.deɪ/, /ˈmʌn.deɪ/, etc.
  • Merriam-Webster: /ˈfrī-(ˌ)dā/, /ˈmən-(ˌ)dā/, etc.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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