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Newguest Posted 18 years ago
Grammar

BC/AD

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00I'd like to know what the British version of writing this looks like.0-
  

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0 They both look ok to me. I think you do need the stop after "c.".0-
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00I understand that both 1 and 2 are fine. Thanks for answering.02br
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00By the way: do you (Englishmen) prefer when someone writes "c." or "century"?0-
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0I have a side question: I've started seeing CE (Common Era) used in place of AD (Anno Domini). Is that becoming more common or is it only in certain communities?0-
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0 The politically correct prefer it. Increase of use depends on who is doing the writing [H]02br
00 I dislike it as a term as it is actually meaningless. There is no such thing as a "common era" - different cultures have different time scales. 0-
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10By the way: do you (Englishmen) prefer when someone writes "c." or "century"?12br
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10It is probably better to write "century", but it is not someth
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00Tell me please if it's OK to write: 02br
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001. In the 11th c. BC or maybe In the 11th c BC SHOULD THERE BE A PERIOD AFTER "C"?02br
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00 Taking the putative birth of Christ as the pivot, you start working back through the centuries: 1st century B[efore] C[hrist]; second century BC and so on. 0240hrefhttp://tinyurl.com/35ovzu
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00Thanks for the infomation. 02br
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0011th Century BC is written as such. But 1090 01b00BC02b00 , 1089BC , etc are written with the letter 01b00c02b00 before 01i00BC02i00.02br
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10But 1090 BC , 1089BC , etc are written 11span10with 12span10the letter 11b10c12b10 before BC.12br
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