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USALiberal

(10,877 posts)
Fri Jul 30, 2021, 12:48 PM Jul 2021

Why "the moon" and "the sun" but not "the Saturn"???

So no one ever says there’s the Saturn or there is the Jupiter but they always say there’s the moon and there’s the sun.

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mitch96

(15,876 posts)
3. It's like on the east coast it's just "95" or "I4" but on the west coast it's "the 405" "the 101"
Fri Jul 30, 2021, 12:54 PM
Jul 2021

Different strokes I guess....
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Wounded Bear

(64,636 posts)
12. For the ancients there was only one sun and one moon, but several planets...
Fri Jul 30, 2021, 08:13 PM
Jul 2021

which literally translated from the original Greek means "wanderer" because they were thought of as moving stars.

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