[Ads-l] Idly wondering

[Wilson Gray]

Why is _cacti_ usual, but _millennia_ unusual?

Or should the question be,

Why is _millenniums_ usual, but _cactuses_ unusual?

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-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint to
come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
-Mark Twain

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