5.87 naming days

The seven days of the week are proper nouns:

• Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday

Saturday and Sunday are often referred to as 'the weekend', and the other days as 'weekdays'.

A few days in the year have special names, for example:

• New Year's Day, St Valentine's Day, Good Friday, Easter Monday, Halloween, Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, Boxing Day, New Year's Eve

You can also name a day by giving its date in ordinal numbers.

• 'When does your term end?' --- 'First of July'.
• The Grand Prix is to be held here on the 18th July.
• Her season of films continues until October the ninth.

You can omit the month if it is clear from the context which month you are referring to.

• So Monday will be the seventeenth.
• St Valentine's Day is on the fourteenth.