"millenia" = 'an indefinite but lengthy period of years'

[Amy West]

On 5/17/12 12:00 AM, Automatic digest processor wrote:
> Date:    Wed, 16 May 2012 12:47:13 -0400
> From:    "Joel S. Berson"<Berson at ATT.NET>
> Subject: Re: "millenia" = 'an indefinite but lengthy period of years'
>
> At 5/16/2012 12:52 AM, Victor Steinbok wrote:
>> >Or it literally means "millennia", as in "2000 years".
> Can't be this, because -- as you say -- it's around 1100 years, not
> even close to two milleniums.
>
<snip?
> If the writer had written "one millenium", I would have been
> content.  But she wrote "millenia."  Centuries would have worked just
> fine.  Perhaps the error was confusing "cent-" with "mill-".
>
> Joel
Or confusing the age of the faith with the age of the MS.

---Amy West

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