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To: decimon
I am unaware of any dialect or variant of the English language, possibly excepting 'ebonics', that uses anything other than 'millennia' as the plural of 'millennium'.

Certainly not 'British' English.

61 posted on 08/30/2009 11:48:13 AM PDT by SAJ (q)
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To: SAJ
I am unaware of any dialect or variant of the English language, possibly excepting 'ebonics', that uses anything other than 'millennia' as the plural of 'millennium'.

Certainly not 'British' English.

Try some dictionaries and argue with the publishers.

64 posted on 08/30/2009 11:52:13 AM PDT by decimon
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To: SAJ

Author prolly has more of that melonominum than us.


65 posted on 08/30/2009 11:52:48 AM PDT by norraad ("What light!">Blues Brothers)
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To: SAJ
I am unaware of any dialect or variant of the English language, possibly excepting 'ebonics', that uses anything other than 'millennia' as the plural of 'millennium'.

Certainly not 'British' English.

The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary disagrees with you

109 posted on 08/30/2009 3:45:34 PM PDT by Oztrich Boy (War is fought by human beings. - Carl von Clausewitz in On War)
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