Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/12/31
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Hi! Misspelling: millennium vs. millenium - annos vs. anus. I´m sure nobody wishes us a thousand anuses. All the best and - whom it may concern - A Happy Y2K! Raimo Photos at http://personal.inet.fi/private/raimo.korhonen - ---------- > From: Claes-Göran Bjernér <claes.bjerner@pi.se> > To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us > Subject: Re: [Leica] FFS: Y2K revamp for M6, LTM > Date: 31. joulukuuta 1999 23:51 > > What do you mean with "misspelling", Raimo? Not at all, but I might have > excaggerated some when i claimed that half the World´s population have > entered it. > > Claes > > > Hi! > > Ah - a slight misspelling - millennium comes from Latin word "annos" = > > year. If you write it with a single "n" it becomes another word altogether: > > "anus". > > All the best and - whom it may concern - A Happy Y2K! > > Raimo > > > > At this hour more than half of the World´s population have entered the > > new > >> Millenium. And so far there have been no reports from anywhere regarding > > the > >> infamous Y2K problem. Was it all just a cruel hoax by unscrupulous > > elements > >> within the computer industry in order to make an extra buck on "Y2K > > problem > >> solutions"? > >> > >> Claes > >