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    Posted: 24-Feb-2009 at 13:14
What does AD mean?
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Assuming you mean in dates, it means 'anno domini', Latin for 'year of the Lord', and designates that the year number is from the Christian calendar, which begins with the assumed date of the birth of Christ.
 
If you want to use the AD date without being Christian, you write 'CE' for 'Common Era' after the year, though it stands a chance of being read as 'Christian Era', or, especially in France, Belgium and Luxembourg, of being taken for something to do with the European Communities. ('Communautés Européennes').
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Posts: 952 		  Quote Paul Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 24-Feb-2009 at 15:08
I wonder how many alternate count methods there are?
 
I know one used by archaeologists 10,000ya means years ago.
Also I'm thinking of starting to use BP and AP.
 


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Paul, assuming BP/AP mean before Paul and after Paul, how are you ever going to use AP? Shocked
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I thought AD meant "Ante Deus", which is supposed to mean something like "after god" or something. Though I admit the "Anno Domini" version sounds more plausible.

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Posts: 952 		  Quote Paul Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 24-Feb-2009 at 23:31
Originally posted by Knights

Paul, assuming BP/AP mean before Paul and after Paul, how are you ever going to use AP? Shocked
 
Questions,
 
1. Who was  the emperor of Rome in 1980 BP?
 
2. What do you estimate the world population will be in 200 AP?
 
3. What year was I born?
 


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Originally posted by Paul

 
3. What year was I born?
 

6 BP?
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3. What year was I born?
 

6 BP?
 
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Some people are always in a hurry. Incidentally my youngest son claims this year (after March 12) will be 49AP.
 
Though what a grocery chain and an oil company have to do with anything I don't know.
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AD stands for Anno Domini: year of our Lord. "Common Era" was invented because some atheist moaned about having use a Christian calendar
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Why is AD (Anno Domini) in Latin, but BC (Before Christ) in English? What do other Christian countries, but none English speaking ones, use instead of BC?
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Originally BC was a Latin phrase: Ante Christum natum, but this was soon changed to local abbreviations
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Originally posted by Sidney

Why is AD (Anno Domini) in Latin, but BC (Before Christ) in English? What do other Christian countries, but none English speaking ones, use instead of BC?
In French, we use :
av.JC : for avant JC (before Jesus Christ)
ap.JC : for après JC (after Jesus Christ)
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History of the Gregorian Calendar:
http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=uJ4JhGJANb4C&lpg=PA583&dq=gregorian%20calendar&pg=PA583#v=onepage&q&f=false
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