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To: decimon
I'll have to look around for a source, but the meaning is clear in the original Latin.

“Millennium” is singular, ergo a singularity, and so the plural of that implies many singularities, a separation and discontinuity of eras.

“Millennia” is plural in and of itself, and implies continuity, an uninterrupted era.

So, “millennia” is the term the author should have chosen, and would have, if he had any grasp of Latin.

54 posted on 08/30/2009 11:41:53 AM PDT by RegulatorCountry
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To: RegulatorCountry
Some dictionaries now list the nonsense word “millenniums” to reflect its usage by the less educated. It is akin to dictionaries now listing “loan” as a verb. “Friends, Romans , countryman LOAN me your ears”
67 posted on 08/30/2009 11:53:29 AM PDT by hecht
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To: RegulatorCountry
“Millennium” is singular, ergo a singularity, and so the plural of that implies many singularities, a separation and discontinuity of eras.

“Millennia” is plural in and of itself, and implies continuity, an uninterrupted era.

So, “millennia” is the term the author should have chosen, and would have, if he had any grasp of Latin.

YOU know you're right; I know you're right; but I can't find the needed source, either.

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127 posted on 08/30/2009 11:37:28 PM PDT by ApplegateRanch (The Great Obamanation of Desolation, sitting in the Oval Office, where he ought not...)
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