Day names or first 3 characters

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Published on 2010-06-17T17:00:18Z Indexed on 2010/06/17 17:03 UTC
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I want my regex to catch:

monday mon thursday thu ...

So it's possible to write something like this:

(?P<day>monday|mon|thursday|thu ...

But I guess that there should be a more elegant solution.

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