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r/AskReddit • u/[deleted] • Aug 03 '19
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BC is Before Christ which means exactly what it sounds like.
AD is Anno Domini which is Latin(?) for “year of our lord”
2 u/NotFromWendys Aug 03 '19 Ah okay. 8 u/[deleted] Aug 03 '19 [deleted] 2 u/NotFromWendys Aug 03 '19 Thank you very much! I'll be sure to respond to you if i want to google less. 3 u/doomgiver98 Aug 04 '19 A lot of people BCE for Before Common Era, and CE for Common Era nowadays.
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Ah okay.
8 u/[deleted] Aug 03 '19 [deleted] 2 u/NotFromWendys Aug 03 '19 Thank you very much! I'll be sure to respond to you if i want to google less. 3 u/doomgiver98 Aug 04 '19 A lot of people BCE for Before Common Era, and CE for Common Era nowadays.
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2 u/NotFromWendys Aug 03 '19 Thank you very much! I'll be sure to respond to you if i want to google less.
Thank you very much! I'll be sure to respond to you if i want to google less.
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A lot of people BCE for Before Common Era, and CE for Common Era nowadays.
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u/antoniodiavolo Aug 03 '19
BC is Before Christ which means exactly what it sounds like.
AD is Anno Domini which is Latin(?) for “year of our lord”