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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: hecht
Some dictionaries now list the nonsense word “millenniums”...

Now list? That wasn't true, say, in the 1800s? You know that?

74 posted on 08/30/2009 11:58:50 AM PDT by decimon
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To: hecht

Well, it actually can be used correctly, for entirely separate eras. A past millennium and a millennium to come, are collectively and correctly millenniums. Otherwise, it’s wrong.


78 posted on 08/30/2009 12:06:45 PM PDT by RegulatorCountry
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