Fix weekday variant ordering: EY should be variant 1, not IY#50
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All days of the week ending in -day should have the EY diphthong (day) as variant 1, not IY (dee). The reduced IY pronunciation is a casual variant, not the standard American English citation form. Before this fix, friday/monday/saturday/tuesday/wednesday all had IY as variant 1, while sunday/thursday already correctly had EY first. This also fixes thursdays which was inconsistent with thursday itself. Cambridge Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, and other references all list the diphthong as the primary pronunciation for the -day syllable. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Summary
Problem
Five of the seven days of the week had the reduced IY /iː/ pronunciation ("-dee") listed as variant 1, with the standard EY /eɪ/ ("-day") as variant 2. This was inconsistent — sunday and thursday already correctly had EY first.
Evidence
All major dictionaries list /eɪ/ as the primary pronunciation:
Found via systematic analysis of all 8,447 multi-variant entries in cmudict. These 5 weekdays (plus their possessives/plurals) were the only entries where variant 1 was clearly non-standard.