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Is “A.D.” is traditionally placed before the year number? [on hold]
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From Washington State University:
Traditionally “A.D.” was placed before the year number and “B.C.” after, but many people now prefer to put both abbreviations after the numbers.
Is this claim true?
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From Washington State University:
Traditionally “A.D.” was placed before the year number and “B.C.” after, but many people now prefer to put both abbreviations after the numbers.
Is this claim true?
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You have two claims, neither is strange enough to warrant a question IMO, and especially not here. This is a question about the English language and there is a complete stack for that.
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Related: english.stackexchange.com/questions/19895/…
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@pipe: the question title make it pretty obvious what the question is (out of those two). It's also a reasonable history question, albeit history of language... .
– Fizz
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@Fizz Of course it's a reasonable history question. Surely this stack is not created to argue simple historical facts.
– pipe
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@fizz This question is trivially answered with a Google search. That makes it not notable to me. Common knowledge is not contentious.
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From Washington State University:
Traditionally “A.D.” was placed before the year number and “B.C.” after, but many people now prefer to put both abbreviations after the numbers.
Is this claim true?
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From Washington State University:
Traditionally “A.D.” was placed before the year number and “B.C.” after, but many people now prefer to put both abbreviations after the numbers.
Is this claim true?
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You have two claims, neither is strange enough to warrant a question IMO, and especially not here. This is a question about the English language and there is a complete stack for that.
– pipe
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Related: english.stackexchange.com/questions/19895/…
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@pipe: the question title make it pretty obvious what the question is (out of those two). It's also a reasonable history question, albeit history of language... .
– Fizz
yesterday
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@Fizz Of course it's a reasonable history question. Surely this stack is not created to argue simple historical facts.
– pipe
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@fizz This question is trivially answered with a Google search. That makes it not notable to me. Common knowledge is not contentious.
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You have two claims, neither is strange enough to warrant a question IMO, and especially not here. This is a question about the English language and there is a complete stack for that.
– pipe
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Related: english.stackexchange.com/questions/19895/…
– Cœur
yesterday
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@pipe: the question title make it pretty obvious what the question is (out of those two). It's also a reasonable history question, albeit history of language... .
– Fizz
yesterday
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@Fizz Of course it's a reasonable history question. Surely this stack is not created to argue simple historical facts.
– pipe
yesterday
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@fizz This question is trivially answered with a Google search. That makes it not notable to me. Common knowledge is not contentious.
– fredsbend
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You have two claims, neither is strange enough to warrant a question IMO, and especially not here. This is a question about the English language and there is a complete stack for that.
– pipe
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You have two claims, neither is strange enough to warrant a question IMO, and especially not here. This is a question about the English language and there is a complete stack for that.
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Related: english.stackexchange.com/questions/19895/…
– Cœur
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Related: english.stackexchange.com/questions/19895/…
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@pipe: the question title make it pretty obvious what the question is (out of those two). It's also a reasonable history question, albeit history of language... .
– Fizz
yesterday
@pipe: the question title make it pretty obvious what the question is (out of those two). It's also a reasonable history question, albeit history of language... .
– Fizz
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@Fizz Of course it's a reasonable history question. Surely this stack is not created to argue simple historical facts.
– pipe
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@Fizz Of course it's a reasonable history question. Surely this stack is not created to argue simple historical facts.
– pipe
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@fizz This question is trivially answered with a Google search. That makes it not notable to me. Common knowledge is not contentious.
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@fizz This question is trivially answered with a Google search. That makes it not notable to me. Common knowledge is not contentious.
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Here is an example like you wish it :
Roof of Gunmakers House in London
On Commercial Road, E1 is a rather curious-looking little building, out of scale with the structures surrounding it. An inscription rises above the facade:
THE PROOF HOUSE OF THE GUNMAKERS COMPANY OF THE CITY OF LONDON.
ESTABLISHED BY CHARTER ANNO DOMINI 1637.
And here you can find additional informations about this house:
Worshipful Company of Gunmakers
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Certainly. A.D. is short for the latin anno domini (in the year of the lord), and in latin grammar that phrase is placed in front of the year number.
English Example (Dickens's Dictionary of London, 1885: Seventh Year: an Unconventional Handbook)
The Chicago Manual of Style notes that the usage in English should follow that - unfortunately I can only provide secondary references for that.
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Firstly, for A.D. you provided a Latin example. Could you provide an English example? Secondly, is the Chicago Manual of Style not publicly available?
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@J.Doe the phrase is Latin, its correct use is the Latin form. It was in use long before such a thing as English even existed.
– jwenting
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@jwenting I meant an english example where the numbers are in english (although A.D. is in latin).
– J. Doe
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@J.Doe see, for example, Dickens' Dictionary of London, Charles Dickens reports an inscription in English: "... on Sunday, 22nd September, A.D. 1560."
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I can confirm the CMS says "Note that the Latin abbreviations AD and AH precede the year number, whereas the others [non-Latin origin] follow it".
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Here is an example like you wish it :
Roof of Gunmakers House in London
On Commercial Road, E1 is a rather curious-looking little building, out of scale with the structures surrounding it. An inscription rises above the facade:
THE PROOF HOUSE OF THE GUNMAKERS COMPANY OF THE CITY OF LONDON.
ESTABLISHED BY CHARTER ANNO DOMINI 1637.
And here you can find additional informations about this house:
Worshipful Company of Gunmakers
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This is the example I was looking for and isn't cut/paste of Wikipedia. Thanks!
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Here is an example like you wish it :
Roof of Gunmakers House in London
On Commercial Road, E1 is a rather curious-looking little building, out of scale with the structures surrounding it. An inscription rises above the facade:
THE PROOF HOUSE OF THE GUNMAKERS COMPANY OF THE CITY OF LONDON.
ESTABLISHED BY CHARTER ANNO DOMINI 1637.
And here you can find additional informations about this house:
Worshipful Company of Gunmakers
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This is the example I was looking for and isn't cut/paste of Wikipedia. Thanks!
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Here is an example like you wish it :
Roof of Gunmakers House in London
On Commercial Road, E1 is a rather curious-looking little building, out of scale with the structures surrounding it. An inscription rises above the facade:
THE PROOF HOUSE OF THE GUNMAKERS COMPANY OF THE CITY OF LONDON.
ESTABLISHED BY CHARTER ANNO DOMINI 1637.
And here you can find additional informations about this house:
Worshipful Company of Gunmakers
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Here is an example like you wish it :
Roof of Gunmakers House in London
On Commercial Road, E1 is a rather curious-looking little building, out of scale with the structures surrounding it. An inscription rises above the facade:
THE PROOF HOUSE OF THE GUNMAKERS COMPANY OF THE CITY OF LONDON.
ESTABLISHED BY CHARTER ANNO DOMINI 1637.
And here you can find additional informations about this house:
Worshipful Company of Gunmakers
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This is the example I was looking for and isn't cut/paste of Wikipedia. Thanks!
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This is the example I was looking for and isn't cut/paste of Wikipedia. Thanks!
– J. Doe
yesterday
This is the example I was looking for and isn't cut/paste of Wikipedia. Thanks!
– J. Doe
yesterday
This is the example I was looking for and isn't cut/paste of Wikipedia. Thanks!
– J. Doe
yesterday
add a comment |
Certainly. A.D. is short for the latin anno domini (in the year of the lord), and in latin grammar that phrase is placed in front of the year number.
English Example (Dickens's Dictionary of London, 1885: Seventh Year: an Unconventional Handbook)
The Chicago Manual of Style notes that the usage in English should follow that - unfortunately I can only provide secondary references for that.
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Firstly, for A.D. you provided a Latin example. Could you provide an English example? Secondly, is the Chicago Manual of Style not publicly available?
– J. Doe
yesterday
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@J.Doe the phrase is Latin, its correct use is the Latin form. It was in use long before such a thing as English even existed.
– jwenting
yesterday
@jwenting I meant an english example where the numbers are in english (although A.D. is in latin).
– J. Doe
yesterday
1
@J.Doe see, for example, Dickens' Dictionary of London, Charles Dickens reports an inscription in English: "... on Sunday, 22nd September, A.D. 1560."
– muru
yesterday
1
I can confirm the CMS says "Note that the Latin abbreviations AD and AH precede the year number, whereas the others [non-Latin origin] follow it".
– Fizz
yesterday
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Certainly. A.D. is short for the latin anno domini (in the year of the lord), and in latin grammar that phrase is placed in front of the year number.
English Example (Dickens's Dictionary of London, 1885: Seventh Year: an Unconventional Handbook)
The Chicago Manual of Style notes that the usage in English should follow that - unfortunately I can only provide secondary references for that.
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Firstly, for A.D. you provided a Latin example. Could you provide an English example? Secondly, is the Chicago Manual of Style not publicly available?
– J. Doe
yesterday
11
@J.Doe the phrase is Latin, its correct use is the Latin form. It was in use long before such a thing as English even existed.
– jwenting
yesterday
@jwenting I meant an english example where the numbers are in english (although A.D. is in latin).
– J. Doe
yesterday
1
@J.Doe see, for example, Dickens' Dictionary of London, Charles Dickens reports an inscription in English: "... on Sunday, 22nd September, A.D. 1560."
– muru
yesterday
1
I can confirm the CMS says "Note that the Latin abbreviations AD and AH precede the year number, whereas the others [non-Latin origin] follow it".
– Fizz
yesterday
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Certainly. A.D. is short for the latin anno domini (in the year of the lord), and in latin grammar that phrase is placed in front of the year number.
English Example (Dickens's Dictionary of London, 1885: Seventh Year: an Unconventional Handbook)
The Chicago Manual of Style notes that the usage in English should follow that - unfortunately I can only provide secondary references for that.
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Certainly. A.D. is short for the latin anno domini (in the year of the lord), and in latin grammar that phrase is placed in front of the year number.
English Example (Dickens's Dictionary of London, 1885: Seventh Year: an Unconventional Handbook)
The Chicago Manual of Style notes that the usage in English should follow that - unfortunately I can only provide secondary references for that.
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Firstly, for A.D. you provided a Latin example. Could you provide an English example? Secondly, is the Chicago Manual of Style not publicly available?
– J. Doe
yesterday
11
@J.Doe the phrase is Latin, its correct use is the Latin form. It was in use long before such a thing as English even existed.
– jwenting
yesterday
@jwenting I meant an english example where the numbers are in english (although A.D. is in latin).
– J. Doe
yesterday
1
@J.Doe see, for example, Dickens' Dictionary of London, Charles Dickens reports an inscription in English: "... on Sunday, 22nd September, A.D. 1560."
– muru
yesterday
1
I can confirm the CMS says "Note that the Latin abbreviations AD and AH precede the year number, whereas the others [non-Latin origin] follow it".
– Fizz
yesterday
|
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Firstly, for A.D. you provided a Latin example. Could you provide an English example? Secondly, is the Chicago Manual of Style not publicly available?
– J. Doe
yesterday
11
@J.Doe the phrase is Latin, its correct use is the Latin form. It was in use long before such a thing as English even existed.
– jwenting
yesterday
@jwenting I meant an english example where the numbers are in english (although A.D. is in latin).
– J. Doe
yesterday
1
@J.Doe see, for example, Dickens' Dictionary of London, Charles Dickens reports an inscription in English: "... on Sunday, 22nd September, A.D. 1560."
– muru
yesterday
1
I can confirm the CMS says "Note that the Latin abbreviations AD and AH precede the year number, whereas the others [non-Latin origin] follow it".
– Fizz
yesterday
Firstly, for A.D. you provided a Latin example. Could you provide an English example? Secondly, is the Chicago Manual of Style not publicly available?
– J. Doe
yesterday
Firstly, for A.D. you provided a Latin example. Could you provide an English example? Secondly, is the Chicago Manual of Style not publicly available?
– J. Doe
yesterday
11
11
@J.Doe the phrase is Latin, its correct use is the Latin form. It was in use long before such a thing as English even existed.
– jwenting
yesterday
@J.Doe the phrase is Latin, its correct use is the Latin form. It was in use long before such a thing as English even existed.
– jwenting
yesterday
@jwenting I meant an english example where the numbers are in english (although A.D. is in latin).
– J. Doe
yesterday
@jwenting I meant an english example where the numbers are in english (although A.D. is in latin).
– J. Doe
yesterday
1
1
@J.Doe see, for example, Dickens' Dictionary of London, Charles Dickens reports an inscription in English: "... on Sunday, 22nd September, A.D. 1560."
– muru
yesterday
@J.Doe see, for example, Dickens' Dictionary of London, Charles Dickens reports an inscription in English: "... on Sunday, 22nd September, A.D. 1560."
– muru
yesterday
1
1
I can confirm the CMS says "Note that the Latin abbreviations AD and AH precede the year number, whereas the others [non-Latin origin] follow it".
– Fizz
yesterday
I can confirm the CMS says "Note that the Latin abbreviations AD and AH precede the year number, whereas the others [non-Latin origin] follow it".
– Fizz
yesterday
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You have two claims, neither is strange enough to warrant a question IMO, and especially not here. This is a question about the English language and there is a complete stack for that.
– pipe
yesterday
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Related: english.stackexchange.com/questions/19895/…
– Cœur
yesterday
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@pipe: the question title make it pretty obvious what the question is (out of those two). It's also a reasonable history question, albeit history of language... .
– Fizz
yesterday
5
@Fizz Of course it's a reasonable history question. Surely this stack is not created to argue simple historical facts.
– pipe
yesterday
3
@fizz This question is trivially answered with a Google search. That makes it not notable to me. Common knowledge is not contentious.
– fredsbend
yesterday