[WikiEN-l] jguk case: amended FoF brought

Mon Jun 20 11:47:58 UTC 2005

> Can you actually provide any citations to support your position?
> I only ask because in my experience the BCE/CE notation is really
> quite common and has been used in the majority of scholarly research
> I've read (well the majority hasn't mentioned an era at all, but what
> does uses BCE/CE). I am aware that it isn't so universally used in all
> fields, but I was taught the BCE/CE notation in grade school...
> Perhaps this is just because I am in the United States.
> 
> Your rewrite makes it sound like it is only used by an insubstantial minority.
> 
> In any case, the arbcom isn't and shouldn't be deciding if we should
> use AD/BC or CE/BCE as it appears the larger community has decided
> that the issue isn't currently clear enough and we don't care.

So why does web of knowledge throw up far more results for BC than BCE?

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geni