Also, traditional convention says that BC comes after a date (e.g., 1200 BC, or year 1200 before Christ), while AD comes before the year in a date (e.g., AD 1200, or anno Domini 1200, which follows English style of in the year of Our Lord 1200). While that convention is no longer universally maintained, it's odd and confusing.

May 7, 2015 · The years we know of as AD are now to be known as CE, "Common Era", and the years we know of as BC are to be known as BCE, "Before Common Era". How a mere change of abbreviation can be deemed politically correct, when the underlying concept of a time-system based on a minority religion remains the same, is anybody's guess!

Aug 11, 2019 · Not only that but if you use a date without a subscript or any other indication from context that you are talking about BC (or BCE if you prefer) then most people will assume that you mean AD (or CE if you prefer). This means that AD and CE are used very infrequently except when discussing history or ancient buildings or artifacts. –

Dec 5, 2013 · FWIW, when I was taught (by History teachers) to take lecture notes as a VIth Form A-level student in Britain in the 1970s, we were taught the abbreviation "C12th" etc. as a standard usage (optionally with the C larger than and partially enclosing the number).

Dec 31, 2018 · It's perfectly reasonable to say AD 1337 (or 1337 AD if you must), but to say fourteenth century AD is to say fourteenth century year of the lord, which is clearly nonsensical. (The good news is that this is a language fight that rarely needs picking because the present era usually doesn't need to be specified, and in the contexts where it ...

Nov 11, 2019 · There 5 BCE is earlier in time than 1 BCE. 1 BCE is later in time than 5 BCE. So I would say that 3-1 BCE is the later part of that decade (10-1 BCE). I don't see how an instructor could mark me wrong if one time is later than another in chronology, not notation.

May 8, 2024 · I'd say that the only real difference is one of register; 'is required to' is more formal than 'must' and is arguably more appropriate here.

Jun 16, 2012 · "Ad nauseum" vs "ad nauseam" [closed] Ask Question Asked 12 years, 10 months ago.

Jan 2, 2021 · Brit. /ad/, U.S. /æd/ I am American, but listening to the samples they provide, I can hear that the British woman says something sounding to me very close to "odd". (I suppose that is because I do not have the actual vowel /a/ so my ear has to choose between the vowels I know.)

Adding to the great answer from @AndrewLeach, the answer quoted EtymOnline with. Fowler thinks this is to avoid the difficulty of remembering the short list of common words not from Greek which must be spelled with an -s- (e.g. advertise, devise, surprise).