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One that got by the NY Times editor:
for millenniums
s/b "for millennia".


4 posted on 08/18/2012 11:16:49 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: SunkenCiv

You’re way behind. Latin plurals are right out, and have been for years. Well, Webster’s Seventh, Ninth, and Eleventh Collegiate Dictionaries ( 1963, 1984, 2003 ) all list “millennia or millenniums,” but the various style manuals have all gone for english pluralizations, I believe.


6 posted on 08/19/2012 12:25:07 AM PDT by dr_lew
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