Anno Domino
It’s not CE (common as cat shit) to me, it’s in the year of our Lord.
Whenever anybody writes that, he loses me.
Every time. Amen.
You can’t necessarily blame the author.
Writers working for these magazines have to adhere to style guides as a condition of employment.
Totally agree!
>>>It’s not CE (common as cat shit) to me, it’s in the year of our Lord.
Given that this journal deals with Biblical archealogy, many of the the authors and readers may be Israeli Jews. For that group of people, we are still in BC, as they await the coming of the Messiah, or Christ. The use of CE and BCE could be in deference to those researchers.
I’m with you.
It’s Anno Domini; there, I’m officially the Latin Gestapo. Sorry.