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--- Dan Jones <dan@hidden.email> wrote:
> For trivia's sake, I looked through a couple of
> dictionaries to find AD/BC
> in a few natlangs:
>
> Italian:
> d.C. - AD - doppo Cristo
> a.C. - BC - ante Cristo
>
> Irish:
> I.C. - AD - iar-Chríost
> R.Ch. - BC roimh Chríost
>
> German:
> n. Chr. - AD - nach Christus
> v. Chr. - BC - vor Christus
>
> Welsh
> O.C. - Ad - Oed Crist
> C.C. - BC - Cyn Crist
>
> AFAICT, only English uses the abbreviation "AD" from
> Latin "anno Domini".
> Anyone more for any more?
Kerno uses a. C. = ante Christo and A. D. = anno
domino. PC hasn't hit Ill Bethisad yet, but I suppose
the Chravithyck minority, especially in academia,
might prefer something less religious in nature.
Perhaps E. C. = etats commyn and a. E. C. = ante l'
etat commyn. Paleoscientists like a. P. = ante le
Present. Amongst other archaic systems there are also
A. A. U. C. = anno ab urpe condita; and the less
common A. I. C. = anno emperio Constantinopolo. Now is
2755 for the former, 549 for the latter. It's also A.
U. D. xxxvij = anno uxelrigo dunnor (37th regnal year
of the High King of Dunein) and A. T. C. xxxv = anno
terrenio combrogior (35th regnal year of Ill Teruin).
In Odiosus's "Morion Poplon", I use "Present Age" or
"Current Era" and "Before the Present Age". The
present age for Odiosus starts about 2000 ago (how
convenient!) from the perspective of the present; and
was inaugurated at the death of the archmage and
Emperor called Agustas in the West. This "common
calendar" is now used in many countries around the
world. 1CE = year 87 of the Pesqas zodiacal era. Now
(2002) is 2089 of that same era (if I did the maths
right).
Padraic.
=====
Percumion farfer, ec nasteros em purfelos, polim ed siramet.
-Pomperios Perfurios.
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