What do you understand by the word weekday?

[FrostyMoanyWind]

Gah, second thinking myself. I want to distinguish between the weekend and Mon-Fri. The inner critic is refusing to let me write "weekday" because all days of the week are, well, days of the week. But I am correct aren't I?

I can use weekday to mean Mon-Fri and weekend to mean Sat/Sun. Writing a presentation and it just looks wrong written down.

Weekday is mon-fri and sat/sun are the weekend.

Mon- Fri.
I would also think you meant Mon-Fri if you said 'working week' but would be irritated as people also work on weekends.

Weekdays are Monday-Friday

If it meant all days, then it would be a bit of a tautology!

It is Mon-Fri but you're right op the longer I think about it the less right it seems!

It's fine - just as a day means the 24-hour period but contained within this are night and day.

This is an interesting question because I remember something similar in a Secret Seven book that always confused me!

In the book, they chose ‘weekdays’ as their password but opined how it ‘was a shame’ that there was 7 of them but only 6 weekdays. I assume because Sunday is the day of rest?

I would think that weekdays is Monday-Friday but obviously Enid Blyton disagrees!

Weekdays I'd interpret as Monday to Friday.

However now you mention it it doesn't seem logical!

More usage than logic here I think.

It was normal to work Saturdays as a weekday in the early 1900s.

Not sure when it finished tbh. And if course shops have always been open in the UK then.

Can you not just say Monday to Friday (and Saturday - Sunday) for clarity?

I'd assume weekday = Mon-Fri but saying the actual days leaves no room for ambiguity?

Mon-Fri, so long as you are not dealing with anyone in the Middle East.

For me, the working week is Sun- Thurs. Fri and Sat are the weekends. It messes with my head everytime I move between here and the UK or back again.

It means Monday-Friday at least in British English.

I always get caught out by the German "Werktagen" = Workdays, as it includes Saturday.

Weekdays are Monday to Friday, weekends are Saturday and Sunday.
Its no different to saying we have five fingers on each hand, whereas we only have four plus one thumb if we're being pedantic.

Why don't you write Mon-Fri?

I always get caught out by the German "Werktagen" = Workdays, as it includes Saturday.

That's interesting, there will be a 3-4 German native speakers listening although I shall be presenting in English.

Why don't you write Mon-Fri?

Because I want to generalise. And saying Monday to Friday each time I have to refer to a slide is just annoying.

I always get caught out by the German "Werktagen" = Workdays, as it includes Saturday.

My Italian DF struggled with the British concept of "weekend" as opposed to "end of the week" - as in France there really isn't a direct word carrying the same meaning. In the end you end up "borrowing" the word it conversation ( le weekend anyone ?). Resulting in one of lifes little joys of hearing a native non English speaker crowbar a very London "weekend" into a conversation

Ah then in that case, you might want to specify. Often even when somebody is a fluent speaker they can be tripped up by little differences in culture like this because you just forget. In our case it's led to parking tickets as we assumed we didn't have to pay on Saturday when the sign says "Workdays", but you don't quite have the same harsh reminder the other way around! Unless perhaps somebody is trying to use the weekday opening hours on a Saturday and being disappointed.