Elizabeth Barrette (ysabetwordsmith) wrote,
Elizabeth Barrette
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Roman Concrete

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Info: nice!

Comments: I should know better than to read them.

Article: C to the writer, editors, and proofreaders (if any):
• "2,000-year-old (and sometimes older) headwaters constructed out of Roman concrete": "the source of a stream —usually used in plural"
• "Pozzuoili Bay": Bay of Pozzuoli
• "can we translate the priciniples from ancient Rome to the production of modern concrete?"
• "Of course, if you are no fan of concrete architecture, you’re out of luck. It could be with us for a few millenia more.":
A Spell for the Millennium
aka Millennium: The Dictionary Entry

ttto Jingle Bells
©thnidu 2004

Double-L, double-N, just ten letters long.

That's how to spell "millennium", remember by this song.

"One thousand years exactly", the meaning of the word:

Year One began the first one, and Two-thousand-one the third.