2015年5月7日 · In settling on A.C. and A.C.N., the Church in effect declined to express the earlier times in direct opposition to Anno Domini—as, for example, with Anno Ante Dominum. Perhaps Church leaders felt that the A.A.D. option put too starkly the absence of the Lord from the world.

The terms "Common Era", "Anno Domini", "Before the Common Era" and "Before Christ" can be applied to dates that rely on either the Julian calendar or the Gregorian calendar. Modern dates are understood in the Western world to be in the Gregorian calendar, but for older dates writers should specify the calendar used.

The era designator 'AD' is an abbreviation for 'Anno Domini', meaning 'In the year of the Lord'. By that reasoning, 'AD 1453' is a complete dependent clause. Disregarding any current practice regarding AD vs CE, factual accuracy, or other concerns, is this actually a complete sentence?

2016年10月29日 · Unlike in Latin, in English the conventional usage is to place AD - Anno Domini before the date: from (ancienthistory.about.com): Although, unlike English, Latin is not a word-order language, it is conventional in English writing for A.D. to precede the year (A.D. 2010) so that the translation, read in word order, would mean "in the year of our ...

2013年5月17日 · It's not particularly common for expressions of time.. It's similar to degrees-minutes-seconds: instead of decimal degrees (38.897212°,-77.036519°) you write (38° 53′ 49.9632″, -77° 2′ 11.4678″).

From the Oxford Corpus of English:. PER ANNUM. For 30 years, it had gone remorselessly ahead, at about 80% per annum.

2012年8月22日 · What's the word to describe someone who acts arrogantly and always disagrees with others unreasonably in order to upset people around him/her?

2011年8月1日 · There are no rules, only loose conventions, formed for brevity, convenience and ease of mental parsing. The convention has been modified for the years 2000-2009 (two thousand and nine), just as it has for 1000-1009, probably for the reason Nav mentions - it just parses nicely that way to an English speaker.

2017年10月15日 · lOE Anglo-Saxon Chron. (Laud) (Peterborough contin.) anno 1123 Se kyng alihte dune of his hors & alehte hine [sc. the bishop] betwux his earmes. c1300 ( ?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Otho) (1978) 13145 Adun hii gonne a-lihte of hire gode stedes. –

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