A melange of mellifluous morphemes

1. Miller - a person who owns or works in a corn mill

2. Milliner - a person who makes or sells women's hats

3. Millionaire - a person whose assets are worth one million pounds or dollars or more

4. Millenarian/Millennialist - a person who believes in millenarianism (ie the doctrine of or belief in a future (and typically imminent) thousand-year age of blessedness, beginning with or culminating in the Second Coming of Christ. It is central to the teaching of groups such as Adventists, Mormons, and Jehovah's Witnesses)

5. Millerite - a person who believed in the specific form of Millenarianism connected with the teachings of William Miller (1782-1849), who in 1833 first shared publicly his belief that the Second Advent of Jesus Christ would occur in roughly the year 1843–1844

6. Millennial - a person reaching young adulthood in the early 21st century

7. Militarist - a person who believes that a country should maintain a strong military capability

8. Militant - a person who favours confrontational or violent methods in support of a political or social cause

9. Meliorist - a person who advocates meliorism (ie the belief that the world can be made better by human effort)
10. Melancholic - A person who feels or expresses pensive sadness
[PS Minimalist - a person who advocates or practises minimalism (ie in art, a movement that arose in the 1950s, characterised by the use of simple, massive forms or in music, an avant-garde movement characterised by the repetition of very short phrases which change gradually, producing a hypnotic effect)]

The millenarian miller was militant in his advocacy of Millerite views.
The millionaire milliner was, politically, a militant militarist.
The melancholic millennial was something of a meliorist.

Recent spelling mistakes, etc

I know the idea of correct spelling and such like strikes some people as a rather pedantic. Perhaps it is but my fear is that inattention to such minutiae is symptomatic of a deeper malaise. Here is an example from my recent reading.

The Story of Everything by Jared C Wilson published by Crossway, page 13. Just over halfway down there is a reference to a "stunning climatic scene" in a film. A "stunning climactic scene" surely. See here.

More controversially I was surprised to see in Grace Alone Salvation as a gift of God by Carl Trueman published by Zondervan, page 128, that Luther strived for many years to gain assurance. I would have thought the strong form strove the obvious word to prefer there but I may just be out of sync there.

PS We have plenty of typos on this blog, which I try to correct but these are mistakes (or not mistakes in the case of the second example) not typos.

(I was going to include here Martin Luther Renegade and Prophet by Lyndal Roper published by Bodley Head, page 346 . At the beginning of the section on Anabaptists comes a reference to "ideas of millenarian violence". I thought it should be millennarian (as in Millennialism) but apparently not.