{"id":26439,"date":"2017-11-30T21:42:09","date_gmt":"2017-11-30T21:42:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/?p=26439"},"modified":"2017-11-30T21:42:09","modified_gmt":"2017-11-30T21:42:09","slug":"english-history-ad-vs-ce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/english-history-ad-vs-ce\/","title":{"rendered":"English, history: AD vs CE"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Tutoring English, conventions are important. The tutor brings up one he was curious about.<\/h1>\n<p>As far as I can determine, timewise, the two acronyms AD and CE have the same meaning. However, their <em>literal<\/em> meanings are different:<\/p>\n<div style=\"font-family:monospace;background-color:lightBlue;font-size:130%;white-space:pre-wrap\">\nAD <em>anno domini<\/em>: year of our lord<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"white-space:pre-wrap\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"font-family:monospace;background-color:lightGreen;font-size:130%;white-space:pre-wrap\">\nCE: common era<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"white-space:pre-wrap\"><\/p>\n<p>The reason CE might be used is to avoid religious connection to a given topic.<\/p>\n<p>Source:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bible.org\/article\/ad-or-ce\">bible.org<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/english.stackexchange.com\/questions\/32953\/why-use-bce-ce-instead-of-bc-ad\/32960\">english.stackexchange.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Jack of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\">Oracle Tutoring by Jack and Diane,<\/a> Campbell River, BC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tutoring English, conventions are important. The tutor brings up one he was curious about. As far as I can determine, timewise, the two acronyms AD and CE have the same meaning. However, their literal meanings are different: AD anno domini: &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/english-history-ad-vs-ce\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">English, history: AD vs CE<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,2209],"tags":[2619,2620],"class_list":["post-26439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","category-history","tag-bc-vs-ad","tag-why-use-ce-instead-of-ad"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26439"}],"version-history":[{"count":35,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26439\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26474,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26439\/revisions\/26474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}