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millennium - noun

 

Not millenium.

Example: In the late 1990s, everyone made plans to celebrate the next millennium.

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  • John Marks
    John Marks
    Why?
    It comes from mile + annus.
    One 'n' for a case ending perhaps, but not two.
    LikeReply4 years ago

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