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To: Gen.Blather

Nit picking: AD (or A.D.) is an abbreviation for the Latin expression “Anno Domini”, which translates to “the Year of Our Lord”. Not “After death”.


29 posted on 06/02/2016 11:28:31 AM PDT by Chuckster ("Them Rag Heads just ain't rational" Curly Bartley 1973)
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To: Chuckster

“Nit picking: AD (or A.D.) is an abbreviation for the Latin expression “Anno Domini”, which translates to “the Year of Our Lord”. Not “After death”.”

Yes, I know. But, when I attended school in the sixties in what was then the buckle of the bible belt, it was Before Christ and After Death. I suspect this was ignorance on the part of the teachers. I learned the Latin after I graduated from high school.


32 posted on 06/02/2016 1:22:33 PM PDT by Gen.Blather
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