| 词组 | millennium |
| 释义 | millennium One of the curious and sometimes frustrating things about our language is its spelling. The way that it has evolved is chiefly haphazard, and it was printers rather than educators who first began to squeeze English into its present state of somewhat uniform spelling. But variant spellings still exist for many words. Some of these variants are deemed acceptable and others are not, and differences of opinion exist on the acceptability of some variants. There seems to be, however, no widely used criterion for judging the relative acceptability of a spelling variant. Certainly simple frequency of use is not always the deciding factor. One of the best attested spelling variants in our files is the single -n- spelling of millennium and its derivative terms. No dictionary or spelling book that we are aware of recognizes millenium. Presumably the force of etymology still obtains in this case. You had better spell it with as many «'s as Ts. |
| 随便看 |
英语用法大全包含2888条英语用法指南，基本涵盖了全部常用英文词汇及语法点的翻译及用法，是英语学习的有利工具。