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#13167 12/19/00 03:21 PM
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> the millenium is at hand (for some people)
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and here I thought *everyone had learned how to spell the chiliad thing last year.

-joe (happy next thousand) friday


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everyone had learned how to spell the chiliad
..you mean the chilliad - that's a hot one!


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> the millenium is at hand (for some people)
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and here I thought *everyone had learned how to spell the chiliad thing last year.

-joe (happy next thousand) friday


Rely on key bounce for double "n"s. Not a spelling problem, a fingering problem. Had to look chiliad up! Do you eat dictionaries for breakfast (love getting to say that, it's usually asked of me!).



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Rely on key bounce for double "n"
The Irish do more of that, then?
I had to look up chiliad, too.


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chiliad

As in

The-ere is a bomb in chiliad
To wound Achilles' hee-eel

??


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The-ere is a bomb in chiliad
To wound Achilles' hee-eel


Let's hope it's at least 1,000 years before any more bombs go off. There are a very great many sin-sick souls, and I
wouldn't mind a balm, myself.



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>Had to look chiliad up! Do you eat dictionaries for breakfast[?]

some days it seems like that -- finding new old, obscure, abstruse or recondite words for my wordlist gets more problematic all the time. <g> last year at this time I did a millennial week: chiliastic, millenarian (note the undoubled n!), bimillenary, eschatology, preterist. [if you early celebrants were wrong, we could still be looking at the 'end of days' 8]


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. [if you early celebrants were wrong, we could still be looking at the 'end of days' 8]

Ooooh, yes, please! I'd hate to see life getting boring or anything.



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chiliastic, millenarian (note the undoubled n!), bimillenary, eschatology, preterist

Nice list, tsuwm. Preterist looks like someone who could be arrested in many states! (Not in Minnesota, of course)


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Faldage asks:
chiliad

As in

The-ere is a bomb in chiliad
To wound Achilles' hee-eel

??


No, I think he means "chiliad" as in "Quidquid id est, timeo Danaos et dona ferentes".





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